These include amendments to the Prevention of Corruption Act (PC Act), 1988, requiring prior permission before initiating an investigation against a public servant, the Advisory Board for Banking and Financial Frauds for the first level of investigation into suspected frauds of banks. ABBFF) installation. He said that financial institutions with more than Rs 50 crore, finalization of Integrated Employee Accountability Framework etc.
The Government, in consultation with the Central Vigilance Commission, has recently finalized a consolidated employee accountability framework for non-performing assets.NPA) accounts of up to Rs 50 crore, apart from cases of fraud, he said.
public sector banks (PSBs) have been advised to suitably revise their respective Employee Accountability Policy and other relevant policies within this framework with the approval of their respective Boards.
“The objective of the Staff Accountability Framework is to protect genuine decisions taken by bank officers/workers while ensuring accountability for wrongdoing or inaction. It aims to identify and penalize only those bank officers/employees who prima facie are responsible for these are responsible for lapses, non-compliance or malpractice of prescribed systems and procedures and/or non-compliance of ‘due diligence’ norms,” ​​it said.
This framework will be applicable for accounts classified as NPA with effect from April 1, 2022.
Replying to another question, the Finance Minister said, a total of 1,25,575 loans have been sanctioned under the Stand Up India (SUI) scheme by scheduled commercial banks across the country till November 30, 2021.
He said that Rs 939.86 crore was sanctioned to 13,092 beneficiaries of SUI scheme during 2020-21.
The objective of the SUI scheme is to promote entrepreneurship among SC/ST and women, with at least one SC/ST borrower per bank branch and one woman borrower from Rs.10 lakh to Rs.1 per SC/ST. Bank loan facility is provided between Rs. He said that banks to set up greenfield projects.
To make the scheme more attractive, the government has announced to reduce the margin money requirement from 25 per cent to 15 per cent for inclusion of agriculture-related activities under the scheme.