It may be recalled that the Reserve Bank had issued a directive under Section 35A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, restraining the Benares State Bank Limited, among other things, from making payments to depositors exceeding Rs.1000 as at the close of business on September 25, 2001. The directive also stipulated that the bank was permitted to pay salaries to its employees. It can also incur other necessary expenditure for a sum not exceeding Rs. 2500 for carrying o

'Banking Statistics: Quarterly Handout – June 2001' provides data on Aggregate Deposits and Gross Bank Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks as on last Friday of June 2001.The data have been classified according to top hundred centres, states,districts, population groups and bank groups. The primary data have been collected from all scheduled commercial banks through the BSR-7 return. The top hundred centres arranged according to the size of deposits accounted for 58.9