Corporate Governance Practices In Selected Indian Financial Institutions

  • Suman Kalyan Chaudhury Dept.Of Business Administration Berhampur University,Bhanja Bihar,Odisha
  • Sanjay Kanti Das Department Of Commerce,Lumding College,Lumding,Nagaon,Assam
  • Devi Prasad Mishra

Abstract

It has been realized that Corporate Governance is vital for better management of any organization. Financial reporting and disclosure of any information are the key factors of corporate governance. Financial Institutions are no exceptions and there has been increasing demand for transparency in functioning of these Institutions in view of several scams.In this paper a modest effort is made to discuss the reporting pattern of India’s twelve financial institutions namely SBI, IDBI, SIDBI, IFCI, NABARD, PNB, UBI, BOB, BOI, KMB, NHB and HDFC. Top Six commercial banks namely (SBI, BOB, PNB, KMB UBI & BOI), six developments banks viz. SIDBI, IFCI, HFDC, IDBI, NHB, and NABARD  are selected under study .The rationale for selection of these institutes is that being incorporated organizations, they should have same Corporate Governance standards. In view of transparency in functioning, the role of different Committees has a vital role to play. Six parameters have been chosen for comparison of various corporate governance practices in all these twelve financial institutions namely, Company’s philosophy on Corporate Governance, Formation of Board of Directors, Composition of Board of Directors, Particulars of Director’s, Organizational Committees, and Additional Information supplied in CG report or in the Annual report. 

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Published
2012-06-01
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