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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
TopicPrivatisation of banks

Topic: privatisation of banks

Govt plans to privatise public sector banks — these two could be the first ones to be sold

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Why Budget 2021 is a great chance for Modi govt to bite the bullet on PSU bank privatisation

Fiscal compulsions could drive privatisation, but there’s still a need to overcome hurdles created by labour laws and low valuation of public sector banks.

Any govt unlikely to pursue meaningful privatisation of banks — ex-RBI governor Urjit Patel

In his book released Friday, Patel also wrote that governments use state-owned banks to pump-prime the economy during slowdowns and are unlikely to let go of this instrument.

ICICI controversy shows privatising public banks isn’t guaranteed to make them better

After the PNB-Nirav Modi scandal, there was an outburst of commentary calling for privatisation of public sector banks. It is far more complicated than that.

On Camera

Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.