Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Employee-benefit provisioning to hit public sector banks hard

...........While PSBs in the first nine months have charged additional R4,250 crore to income statement towards amortisation related to enhancement in gratuity limit and re-opening of pension option for existing employees (in line with RBI’s February 9, 2011, circular); some banks like SBI have made provision of R1,800 crore towards additional pension liability. PSBs have also made additional provision of nearly R3,300 crore in the nine-month period on ad-hoc basis for wage revision effective November 2012..........

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