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State-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) proposes to expand its RAM (retail, agriculture and MSMEs) sector lending to 58 per cent of its loan book in the current financial year with the help of various initiatives taken, including loan outreach. The bank closed FY25 with loan outstanding under RAM segment at Rs 6,02,682 crore, 56 per cent of the loan book. "We are planning to increase RAM from 56 per cent to 58 per cent in this financial year because that will give me the cushion against loss which is happening in due to reduction in the interest rate in the corporate and the RLLR (repo-linked lending rate) loan book," PNB MD & CEO Ashok Chandra told PTI in an interview. The volume increase in the RAM segment will help compensate for a loss due to further rate cuts, he said. Sharing the various initiatives taken to increase RAM, Chandra said the bank had conducted outreach activities for giving push to both retail and MSME lending in February on pan-India basis and these yielded a ..