Table of Contents CERTIFICATE ; DECLARATION ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ; l _INTRODUCTION ; 1.1 BANKING SECTOR IN INDIA ; 1.2 CONCEPT OF LIBERALIZATION ; 1.3 AIM 0 F THE RESEARCH ; 1.4 HYPOTHESIS ; 1.5 METHOD OF ANALYSIS ; 1_6 SOURCES OF DA T A ; 1.7 MODE OF CITATION ; 1_8 CHAPTERIZATION ; 1_9 RESEARCH QUESTIONS ; CHAPTER 2_ECONOMIC REFORMS IN INDIA AND ITS IMPACT ONTHE BANKING SECTOR ; 2_1 PRE-REFORM ERA ; 2_2 INDIA'S INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS REGARDING LIBERALIZATION OF BANKING SECTOR; 2.3 NARASIMHAM COMMITIEE REPORTS ; 2.4 Committee On The Financial System 1991 (CFS) ; 2.5 Recommendations By The Committee ; 2.6 Capital Adequacy Requirements ; 2.7 No Further Nationalisation Of Banks ; 2.8 Entry Of Private Players ; 2.8 Foreign Banks ; 2.9 Implementation Of The Recommendations ; 2.10 Capital Adequacy Norms ; 2.11 Income Recognition and Provisioning ; 2.12 Supervision System ; 2.13 Bank Branch license ; 2.14 Private Sector Banks ; 2.15 Priority Sector l ending ; 2.16 Committee On Banking Sector Reforms ; 2.17 Implementation Of Recommendations of CFS ; 2.18 Recommendations By The Committee ; 2.19 Capital Adequacy Requirements ; 2.20 Norms On Income Recognition, Asset Classification And Provisioning ; 2.21 Disclosure In Financial Statements ; 2.22 New Private Banks ; 2.23 Subsidiaries Of Foreign Banks ; 2.24 Regulation And Supervision ; 2.25 Implementation Of The Recommendations ; 2.26 Capital Adequacy; 2.27 Norms On Income Recognition Asset Classification And Provisioning ; 2.28 Disclosure In Financial Statements ; 2.29 New Private Banks ; 2.30 Subsidiaries Of Foreign Banks ; 2.31 Regulation And Supervision ; 2.32 COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL SECTOR REFORMS ; CH:3 WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION AND BANKING SECTOR·WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INDIAN BANKING SECTOR ; 3.1 GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TRADE IN SERVICES ; 3.2 Services Under GATS ; 3.3 Financial Services Under GATS ; 3.4 Most Favoured Nation And Transparency ; 3.5 Market Access And National Treatment ; 3.6 Schedule Of Commitments ; 3.7 Request And Offer Approach ; 3.8 Exemption Under GATS ; 3.9 GATS AND INDIA ; 3.10 Commitments By India In The Banking Sector ; 3.11 limitation On Market Access ; 3.12 limitation On National Treatment ; 3.13 Commitments Offered By India As On 2005 ; 3.14 Recent Requests And Offers Involving India ; Chapter 4: PRUDENTIAL NORMS IN INDIAN BANKING SECTOR ; 4.1 PRUDENTIAL CARVE OUT IN GATS ; 4.2CONCEPT OF PRUDENTIAL REGULATION ; 4.3 BASEL STANDARDS ; 4.4 Basel I ; 4.5 Basel II ; 4.6 Banking Supervision ; 4.7 PRUDENTIAL NORMS IN INDIA ; 4.8 Prudential Norms On Capital Adequacy Requirements ; 4.9 Prudential Norms On Asset Classification, Income Recognition, Provisioning ; 4.10 Banking Supervision ; 4.11 licensing ; 4.12 GATS AND BASEL STANDARDS ; Chapter: 5 FRAMEWORK IN INDIA ; 5.1 LICENSING REQUIREMENT ; 5.2 PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS IN INDIA ; 5.4 Road map For Presence of Foreign Banks In India ; 55 Setting Up Wholly Owned Subsidiary (WOS) ; 5.6 FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS ; 5.7 FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN BANKING SECTOR ; 5.8 REGULATORY MECHANISM ; 5.9 NEW NORMS REGARDING FOREIGN INVESTMENT ; conclusion ; BIBLIOGRAPHY .