Friday, June 7, 2013

Cartelisation, not competition, decides banking service charges

.................Clearly, there are a lot of questions that need answers. From the consumer's perspective, the most positive aspect is that the RBI is now willing to engage with customers directly, hear their issues first hand and offer to examine the merits of each demand. This was evident from the fact that although Dr Chakrabarty personally took all the questions during the open house, the programme was attended by all those who would interact with the consumer. Present at the meeting were AC Mahajan, chairman of BCSBI and Mr Narayana Raja its chief executive. Dr Deepali Pant Joshi, executive director of the RBI, Supriya Pattnaik, chief general manager (CGM) of RBI, Rosemary Sebastian, Banking Ombudsman of Mumbai, M Balachandran, director of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) as well as former CGMs in charge of customer services-Kaza Sudhakar and Jagan Mohan Rao. DG Kale, general manager in the Consumer Services department at RBI was also present.

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