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The Government of India (GOI) adopted planned economic development for the country (India). through five year plans which came into existence in 1951. The economic plan basically aimed at social ownership of the means of production. However, commercial banks, which were in the private sector those days, failed to help the government in fulfilling these objectives by refusing to give loans to the poorer sections such as cottage industry, village industry, farmers, craft men, etc.without any security. Therefore, the government on 19th July, 1969 decided to nationalize 14 major commercial banks. The second dose of nationalisation came in April 1980 when 6 more banks were nationalized.

M.J. SUBRAMANYAM, XCHANGING, BANGALORE

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