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Budget 2019: Govt hands over housing finance companies to RBI from NHB

HFCs, which so far have conducted business with light-touch regulation, will likely face intense scrutiny

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Subrata Panda
The government has taken away the powers of the National Housing Bank (NHB) to regulate housing finance companies (HFCs) and handed them to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Act will be amended to give the RBI powers to regulate the HFC sector.
NHB was part of the RBI till April this year when the government decided to take it over.

“NHB, besides being the refinancer and lender, is also regulator of the housing finance sector. This gives a somewhat conflicting and difficult mandate to NHB. I am proposing to return the regulation authority over the housing

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