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Friday 16 March 2018

Ready to be 'Neelakantha', drink poison to clean system

 Urjit Patel said that like the 'Neelakantha', the Reserve Bank will consume poison and face brickbats
    On the PNB scam, he said that the RBI 'also feel the anger, hurt and pain at the banking sector frauds and irregularities'



 Expressing deep anguish over a spate of banking frauds, RBI Governor Urjit Patel said on Wednesday that like the 'Neelakantha', the central bank will consume poison and face brickbats, but will persist with endeavour to become better with each trial.

Breaking silence over the Rs 12,967 crore scam at PNB, he said: "I have chosen to speak today to convey that we at the Reserve Bank of India also feel the anger, hurt and pain at the banking sector frauds and irregularities."


Delivering a lecture at the Gujarat National Law University here, he said: "In plain simple English, these practices amount to a looting of our country's future by some in the business community, in cahoots with some lenders."