New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- The finance ministry has deferred the performance review meeting with heads of public sector banks (PSBs) by a day to March 5, 2025. The meeting, to be chaired by Financial Services Secretary M Nagaraju, will review the financial performance and progress of financial inclusion schemes, among other topics.

Earlier, the Department of Financial Services had fixed March 4, 2025, for the meeting. This will be the first meeting after the Union Budget 2025-26 presentation in the Parliament. The 12 PSBs in India posted their highest-ever net profit of Rs.1.29 lakh crore in the April-December period of the current fiscal year (2024-25), marking an annual increase of 31.3 per cent.

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