Vijaya Bank to get Rs 220 crore capital infusion from govt

New Delhi: State-run Vijaya Bank today said the government has approved a capital infusion of Rs 220 crore in lieu of preferential allotment of shares.

"Government has decided to infuse capital funds to the tune of Rs 220 crore in Vijaya Bank by way of preferential allotment of equity in favour of Government of India as part of capital infusion for financial year 2015-16," Vijaya Bank said in a BSE filing.

This is part of government's plan to infuse Rs 5,050 crore in public sector banks.

In the first tranche, as many as 13 public sectors banks were given fund support of Rs 19,950 crore. Of this, SBI got the highest amount of Rs 5,393 crore.

Besides, the government infused Rs 2,229 crore in IDBI Bank, Rs 2,009 crore in Indian Overseas Bank and Rs 1,732 crore in Punjab National Bank.

Last year, the government had announced a revamp plan 'Indradhanush' to infuse Rs 70,000 crore in state-owned banks over four years, while they will have to raise a further Rs 1.1 lakh crore from markets to meet their capital requirements in line with global risk norms Basel-III.

In line with the blueprint, PSU banks will get Rs 25,000 crore this fiscal and also in the next fiscal. Besides, Rs 10,000 crore each would be infused in 2017-18 and 2018-19.