Best of BS Opinion: India's IAS officers, companies owning banks and more

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Our bureaucrats do all kinds of jobs, including policy making, running banks, and heading the central bank. Success or lapse, bank failures included, everything seems to point at them. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up

Are IAS officers unfairly maligned? Ajit Balakrishnan seeks an answer. Read it here

The debate whether companies should own and run banks is misplaced. Debashis Basu analyses the issues. Read it here

Dhanlaxmi Bank got out of prompt corrective action in February 2019 after it took good steps. However, the RBI expressed

“serious concern on deteriorating governance standards in the bank”. Tamal Bandyopadhyay takes you through the story. Read it here

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They (BJP) should first give the accounts of money they had collected (as donations) after performing “shila pujan” (foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Ram temple) in the past

 

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel