The government has asked IDBI Bank to align with other nationalised banks in terms of designations and compensation, a move that will take away the last few strands of privilege the bank and its former avatar as a term lending institution has enjoyed since the 1960s.
Although IDBI Bank is considered a public sector bank, it is designated as an “other public sector” bank because of its transformation from a term lending institution.
The chairman and managing director of IDBI Bank was treated on a par with those of the State Bank of India (SBI), Life Insurance Corporation of India

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