Describing its choice as a "vote for the future", a distinguished four-member jury selected State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman Om Prakash Bhatt as Business Standard's Banker of the Year for 2006-07.
Outgoing State Bank of India chairman Om Prakash Bhatt continued his defiance of the central bank on the teaser loan front saying 'the Reserve Bank never understood our special home loan product'.
SBI's move may not have moved the farmers, who had stopped paying their monthly installments ever since Finance Minister P Chidambaram announced a Rs 60,000-debt waiver plan, but it did create a furore in political circles. Finally, Chidambaram, by his own admission, had to intervene and get SBI to roll back the move. For the 57-year-old SBI chief, who has earned an unprecedented five-year term, it proved to be a rare instance of being 'misunderstood'.
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