(PTI)
Finance Minister Piyush Goyal will meet the CEOs of public sector banks Monday to take a stock of the banking sector, and discuss ways to improve their financial health, sources said. The meeting assumes significance as it comes just three days ahead of the Budget 2019-20, the last from this government before the general elections expected to be held in April-May.
The full-day meeting is likely to be attended by Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das, who is going to who is going to announce his first monetary policy review on February 7. Goyal, who was given additional charge of the finance ministry last Wednesday as Arun Jaitley is away to the US for a treatment, is his expected to discuss a host of issues including credit offtake and bad loan position of lenders.
