R Gandhi committee of RBI recommends conversion of UCBs into regular banks.
A Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
committee has recommended conversion of Urban Cooperative Banks (UCBs) with
business size of 20,000 crore rupees or more into regular banks. This
recommendation was given by the High Powered Committee on UCBs headed by RBI
Deputy Governor R Gandhi in its report.
Recommendations Conversion of UCBs
will not be compulsory for large UCBs and they can continue the way they
operate currently in terms of asset size and balance sheet. Large UCBs can
convert themselves into commercial banks in order to minimise the systemic
risk. For conversion, smaller UCBs with business size of less than 20,000 crore
rupees who are willing to convert to Small Finance Banks can apply to the RBI. Licenses
for conversion to operate as UCBs will be issued to well-managed and
financially sound cooperative credit societies having a minimum track record of
5-years. With the conversion, UCBs will be allowed to grow and proliferate
further to meet the objective of financial inclusion.
Background The High Powered
Committee on UCBs was constituted in January 2015 on the recommendation Malegam
Committee (Expert Committee on Licensing of New UCBs). Terms and reference of
the committee was to examine and recommend on issues of conversion of UCBs into
commercial banks. The committee work was to examine permissible business lines
and appropriate size of UCBs for conversion purpose
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