The government does not plan to introduce any bill to make amendments to facilitate privatization of public sector banks in the current monsoon session, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. by trade list monsoon session In a written reply, Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat K Karad said that in the 2022 Parliament, no such Bill has been listed for introduction, consideration and passing.

In the Union Budget for 2021-22, the government announced the privatization of two public sector banks (public sector banks) in the year and approved the policy of strategic disinvestment of public sector enterprises.

In response to another question, Karad said, the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC-PM) has not advised privatization of all other public sector banks in India.

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“As per the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, the EAC has not given any such advice to the Prime Minister,” he said.

Replying to another question, Karad said, “Banks have sanctioned Rs 9.98 crore under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) to about 16.67 crore beneficiaries in the last three financial years.”

During 2021-22, about 5.38 crore accounts received Rs 3.39 lakh crore under PMMY.

He said that the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MoLE) has conducted a sample survey at the national level to estimate the employment generation under PMMY.

“As per the survey results, he said, PMMY helped generate 1.12 crore net additional employment during the period of about 3 years (i.e. from 2015 to 2018).

“As per the findings of this survey, on an overall basis, loans under the Shishu category accounted for 66 per cent of the additional employment generated by establishments owned by Mudra beneficiaries, followed by Kishor (19 per cent) and Tarun (15 per cent) categories. are,” he said.

In addition, till July 1, 2022, more than 7.66 crore loans worth Rs 6.12 lakh crore have been given to new entrepreneurs/accounts under PMMY since the inception of the scheme.