CEA Subramanian stresses on infra-led growth, takes on crony lending
Chief Economic Adviser K V Subramanian on Tuesday exhorted financial institutions to avoid crony lending and focus on high quality loans for creation of assets that will help the country become a $5 trillion economy. Observing that Indian banking sector since the early 1990s faced the problem of poor quality lending especially on large loans, he said, loans were not given to most creditworthy borrowers but to crony capitalists, leading to high distress. "When the financial sector decides to actually lend to a particular borrower who is more connected even though that borrower may not be th...