West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today questioned why the Centre is not ready to disclose details of credit information by a public sector bank in Parliament.
Even in Parliament reply today, the Government of India says the details of credit information by a public sector bank cannot be disclosed, Banerjee tweeted this evening.
She asked, "Why is this confidentiality? Whom is the Government trying to protect?"
The chief minister demanded immediate disclosure of the complete list of public sector banks defaulters.
"We demand immediate disclosure of the complete list of defaulters of public sector banks, whose loans have been written off. Is it not a big, big, big scam ???" she asked.
Banerjee also expressed shock as the BJP-led central government did not consider the farmers' appeal to waive their loans despite reports of suicide by peasants who failed to pay their debts.
"I am shocked to see that at a time, when the farmers in the country are crying and committing suicide for their loan burden and asking for waiver of farmers' loan, the Government of India has not even considered that.
"On the contrary, the Government of India has decided to write off Non-Performing Assets of public sector banks to the tune of Rs 2,41,911 crore from the Financial Year 2014-15 till September, 2017," she stated.
The Trinamool Congress supremo pointed out that it was her party which had raised the issue of NPA at the time of demonetisation.
"This is unbelievable. We raised the issue of Non-Performing Assets right at the time of demonetisation. Now the cat is out of the bag and reality bites," she added.
In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today to questions put by MP Ritabrata Banerjee, who has been suspended by the CPI(M), the government said between 2014-15 and September 2017, public sector banks had written off Rs 2.41 lakh crore loans to corporate bodies.
The Centre, however, declined to name the defaulters, citing a section of the RBI Act which prohibits it from disclosing credit information given by banks.
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