Constitution of the Central Board of Directors
The Central Board of Directors consisted of the following as on 30th June 2000.

*w.e.f. 13th July 2000.

Meetings of the Central Board
The Central Board held four meetings during FY00. In addition to reviewing monetary, balance of payments and exchange market developments during the year, the Board approved the Credit Plan and quarterly reports on the state of the economy for FY00.

Re-structuring of Bank’s Operations and Improvement in Service Conditions
After the assumption of the office, the Governor prepared a Concept Paper for future direction of the State Bank which was subsequently approved in the Board’s meeting held on 11th February 2000. The paper aims at transforming the State Bank into a highly professional, efficient and modern institution through qualitative improvement in economic policy formulation, proactive supervision and regulation, prudent management of exchange market and streamlining of the payments system. The strategy outlined to achieve the above objectives includes: technology up-gradation, human resource development, improvement in physical environment, delegation of powers and consolidation of functions. Professional integrity, trust and sense of responsibility, team work, honest and candid feedback, courtesy, respect and competence in service, were specified as the values to be promoted in the Bank.

Human Resource Development
To help implement the human resource development strategy, outlined in the Concept Paper, the following measures have been taken:

a) Entry point in Central Directorate has been prescribed at OG-2 level, both for the Research and General sides. Simultaneously, the recruitment of OG-2 under Bank Officials’ Training Scheme was held on an open, competitive, merit based system. Recruitment for senior positions (Director/Adviser) and induction of professionals at the middle management level (i.e. Joint Director), was also made strictly on the basis of merit through open competition.

b) Efforts are being made to improve the system of training at the Bank with focus on the content, quality and relevance of training. The training will be imparted at four levels: entry level, mid-career level, operational level and management level. A major training program, approved by the Central Board, is being implemented. The institutional mechanism was put in place which included upgrading of the training institute of the State Bank (National Institute of Banking and Finance) Islamabad. A completely redesigned training course for the newly recruited OG-2 officers is underway.

c)The Promotion Policy has been modified to make it more transparent and merit oriented. Towards this end, the Performance Evaluation Report (PER) form has also been revised to carry out more objective and realistic evaluation.

d) An Early Retirement Incentive Scheme (ERIS) was launched on 13th June 2000, whereby all employees of the Bank with 25 years qualifying service, were offered normal retirement benefits and Leave Encashment up to a maximum of 730 days, if due. In addition, those opting for early retirement were allowed to get, at their option, lump sum payment of admissible amount of Benevolent Fund grant and 10 months’ salary in lieu of post retirement medical facilities.

Institutional Strengthening
a) As a part of the process of decentralization of authority, powers pertaining to administration and expenditure have been delegated to lower levels of administrative hierarchy. Periodic reviews would be made for further decentralization of power. Chief Managers have been delegated financial and administrative powers to dispose of the business expeditiously.

b) Banking Policy & Regulations Department (BP&RD) and Banking Supervision Departments (BSDs) have been re-structured with unified responsibility for on-site supervision, off-site surveillance and for tracking market analyses for a group of banks and financial institutions. This continuous monitoring is an improvement over discrete once a year or once in two years supervision which the Bank inspectors used to carry out.

c) The core and non-core functions of the Bank have been separated and specialized skills and expertise will be inducted, retained and concentrated in the areas of Banking Supervision and Regulation, Monetary Policy, Exchange Rate policy and operations etc.

d) A Banking Laws Review Commission has been constituted by the Government to review all the existing banking laws with a view to provide an appropriate environment for financial institutions to face challenges of growing competition, globalization and information technology so as to make the supervisory process manageable and cost effective.

Technology Up-gradation
a) The process of automation of operations and management system of the Bank continued during the year. The projects for automation of Government Securities and Banking Zones at Karachi Office, which started last year, are close to completion. National Prize Bonds Draw through computer has been designed, developed and implemented. An Intranet has been established connecting Governor’s floor, EDs’ floor and ISD, with server situated at Information Systems Department.

b) The Bank also launched its Website on 3rd May 2000 placing its important documents there for users. These documents are: SBP Act, press releases, banking regulations, Governors’ speeches, departmental write ups, data on export receipts, daily currency spot rates, Annual/Quarterly Reports, Weekly Statement of Affairs, Foreign Exchange Manual, statistical data on selected economic indicators and circulars/notifications issued by different Departments. The Website is updated regularly and contains the latest information in respect of the SBP.

c) To ensure greater security and efficiency in payment system, the Bank acquired membership of Society for Worldwide Inter-bank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) and installed required equipments at the Central Directorate and Bank’s regional offices at Lahore and Islamabad to activate the system with effect from 5th June 2000.

d) An Information Systems Strategy Plan (ISSP), embodying a five-year program to strengthen I.T. system, has been prepared which is now in the process of implementation. During this year, in-house applications software systems regarding "Human Resource Management", "Staff Leave Account", "Staff Loan Account" and "Staff Assets & Liabilities" etc., have also been implemented at the nine offices and would gradually be extended to the remaining offices.

Training Institute
The State Bank Training Institute, Islamabad continued to provide training facilities both to the Bank’s staff and the officials of developing countries of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Caribbean and Pacific Regions. Five strategic management training programs for Assistant Directors/Deputy Directors of the Bank, of three-week’s duration each except the first one which was of 4-week’s duration, were held during the year. The number of participants in each program was twenty. In addition, 32nd international central banking course, of eight-week’s duration, was also held. Twenty-two officials from developing countries of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Caribbean and Pacific regions, attended the course. Moreover, a course on "Financial Programming and Policies", meant for officials from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan, was also organized at the Institute in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund.

Inspection of Banks and NBFIs
On-site inspections of 34 scheduled banks were conducted in FY00 compared with 33 in FY99. Of these, 23 were Pakistani banks (13 private banks, 2 provincial banks, 4 nationalized commercial banks, 2 denationalized commercial banks and 2 specialized banks) while the remaining 11 were foreign banks. Besides these, 21 NBFIs (4 development financial institutions, 12 investment banks, 2 housing finance companies, 2 discount houses and a venture capital company) were also inspected.

Foreign Exchange Adjudication Department
As against 1,748 complaints received during FY00, 1,575 were disposed of as compared to 3,001 and 1,470 respectively during FY99. Most of these complaints were regarding the non-repatriation of export proceeds. An aggregate penalty of Rs 108.3 million was imposed and a sum of Rs 1.4 million has been recovered during the year. Furthermore, foreign exchange equivalent to US$ 20.6 million was repatriated to

Internal Audit and Inspection
Inspection of all the 16 regional offices of the Bank and 13 Departments of Central Directorate has been completed by the Audit Department during FY00. The performance of internal audit sections attached to regional offices and various Departments of Central Directorate, has also been kept under review. During the year, Special Audit Cells continued 100 percent audit of closed export refinance cases at Karachi and Lahore offices and an amount of Rs 3.5 million has been recovered by way of penalty on account of irregularities. Furthermore, an amount of Rs 25.9 million has also been recovered at Karachi, Lahore, Hyderabad, Sialkot, Multan and Faisalabad offices, through regular inspections by Audit Department.

Building Projects of the Bank
The Governor inaugurated the new office building at Hyderabad on 27th May 2000. The construction of new office building at Muzaffarabad is close to completion. As a part of modernisation of communication system of the Bank, most modern telephone exchanges have also been installed at Muzaffarabad, Quetta and Peshawar offices.

Annual Accounts
The profit and loss position of the Bank for FY00 is summarized in Table IX.1, while the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account Report.

Table IX.1
Summary of Profit and Loss Account
(Rs million)

Gross earnings sharply increased by 27.1 per cent to Rs 52.3 billion over the preceding year mainly because of 33 per cent increase in discount earnings on Market Treasury Bills. Net earnings (defined as gross earnings adjusted for gain/loss on account of foreign exchange transactions) rose by 52.0 percent to Rs 42.5 billion over the same period last year. On the other hand, total expenditure rose by 22.9 per cent to Rs 6.4 billion during FY00. Major increases in expenditure were recorded under printing of Currency Notes (Rs 253.1 million), Agency Charges (Rs 266 million) and Establishment Expenditure (Rs 314.2 million). While higher printing charges reflected increase both in printing cost and volume of notes printed, increased Agency Charges were attributable to greater volume of Government transactions put through the NBP. Higher establishment expenditure was mainly due to the payment of arrears on account of revision in pension rate with effect from December 1997 and the provision made for Leave Encashment of the employees opting for Early Retirement Incentive Scheme. Expenditure under other items, comprising a miscellany of items including legal charges, depreciation & repairs, contribution to Staff Welfare Fund etc., recorded a rise of Rs 343.5 million.

The net profit which stood at Rs 36.1 billion in FY00 as compared with Rs 22.8 billion in FY99 has been appropriated as follows:

Balance Sheet of the Banking and Issue Departments
Banking Department
The Balance Sheet of the Banking Department showing position as on 30th June 2000.

On the liabilities side, the Paid-up Capital and balances under Rural Credit Fund, Industrial Credit Fund, Export Credit Fund, Loans Guarantee Fund and Housing Credit Fund remained unchanged at the preceding year’s level. The balance under Reserve Fund rose to Rs 14.0 billion as result of a fresh allocation of Rs 5.0 billion.

Deposits of Federal Government were slightly lower at Rs 4.3 billion on 30th June 2000 as compared with Rs 4.6 billion last year. As for the Provincial Governments balances, the Governments of Punjab and AJK had credit balances of Rs 19.5 billion and Rs 0.9 billion as on 30th June 2000 respectively against credit balances of Rs 4.4 billion and Rs 0.7 billion as on 30th June 1999. The Punjab Government credit balance increased sharply by Rs 15.1 billion over the preceding year mainly due to transfer of its debit balances to other Provinces in respect of procurement of wheat (commodity operations) by other Provinces from Punjab. The debtor balances of the Governments of Sindh and Baluchistan stood at Rs 14.9 billion and Rs 2.8 billion as on 30th June 2000 compared with Rs 6.3 billion and Rs 1.3 billion on 30th June 1999 respectively. The Government of NWFP had a debit balance of Rs 6.9 billion as on 30th June 2000 as against a credit balance of Rs 3.9 billion as on 30th June 1999. The Governments of Sindh, NWFP and Baluchistan could not reduce their large overdrafts during FY00 from the Bank because they did not avail cash credit limits from commercial banks available to them.

Scheduled banks’ deposits with State Bank of Pakistan increased by Rs 29.5 billion to Rs 114.7 billion over the preceding year. Other deposits, including counterpart funds, Special Debt Repayment Accounts, foreign currency deposits of non-resident banks and funds received for re-structuring of banking sector, increased from Rs 213.9 billion at end June 1999 to Rs 299.2 billion at end June 2000. The balance under ‘Revaluation Account’ which represents unrealized appreciation/depreciation on revaluation of Gold, showed a credit balance of Rs 28.6 billion as on 30th June 2000. Rupee counterpart of SDR allocations and Bills Payable also rose by Rs 55.3 million and Rs 161.0 million, respectively. ‘Other Liabilities’ decreased by Rs 1.4 billion from Rs 89.2 billion at end June 1999 to Rs 87.9 billion as on 30th June 2000.

On the Assets side, under the head "Bills Purchased and Discounted", holding of Government treasury bills increased from Rs 3.2 billion at end June 1999 to Rs 16.9 billion at end June 2000. ‘Balances held outside Pakistan’ declined from Rs 14.0 billion as on 30th June 1999 to Rs 10.5 billion at the end of June 2000. Loans and Advances to scheduled banks rose from Rs 147.2 billion as on 30th June 1999 to Rs 153.2 billion as on 30th June 2000. Loans and Advances to non-bank financial institutions increased slightly from Rs 42.7 billion at end June 1999 to Rs 42.9 billion at end June 2000.

State Bank’s investment in scheduled banks rose slightly from Rs 39.8 billion as at end June 1999 to Rs 40.0 billion as at end June 2000. State Bank’s investments in non-bank financial institutions remained unchanged at last year’s level of Rs 2.1 billion. Investment in Government Securities increased from Rs 179.3 billion at end June 1999 to Rs 276.9 billion at end June 2000 reflecting increased Government borrowings from the Bank.

The balance in the Bank’s Main Account with Reserve Bank of India, remained unchanged as India did not write up the State Bank’s balance with it under the provisions of the payments agreement between the two countries. The matter is still in dispute.

Issue Department
The Balance Sheet of the Issue Department as on 30th June 2000

The total Notes Issued increased from Rs 305.3 billion at the close of last year to Rs 373.7 billion on 30th June 2000. On the Assets side, the value of "Gold Coin and Bullion" increased from Rs 27.6 billion as on 30th June 1999 to Rs 31.0 billion as on 30th June 2000 due to purchase of confiscated gold from Government departments and appreciation booked on revaluation of gold. Holdings of "Approved Foreign Exchange" decreased from Rs 75.3 billion to Rs 60.2 billion over the year. The balance of "India Notes representing assets receivable from the Reserve Bank of India" decreased from Rs 0.51 billion to Rs 0.50 billion reflecting depreciation of India Rupee in terms of Pakistan Rupee. Holding of Government of Pakistan’s Securities increased from Rs 184.3 billion to Rs 264.5 billion mainly on account of transfer of these securities from Banking to Issue Department due to expansion in currency in circulation and decrease in Foreign Exchange Reserves, partly offset by transfer of these Securities from Issue to Banking Department on account of appreciation booked on revaluation of gold holdings. Amount of "Internal Bills of Exchange and other Commercial Papers" remained unchanged at Rs 15.1 billion. The Assets "Held with the Reserve Bank of India pending transfer to Pakistan" increased from Rs 0.7 billion to Rs 0.8 billion mainly due to appreciation booked on revaluation of "Gold Coin and Bullion" and partly offset by depreciation booked on revaluation of Sterling Securities, India Rupee Securities and India Rupee Coin in terms of Pakistan Rupee.

Coinage
Rupee Coins in circulation amounted to Rs 0.4 billion on 30th June 2000 as against Rs 0.2 billion a year ago. One Rupee Notes in circulation at the end of 30th June 2000 amounted to Rs 0.2 billion as against Rs 0.4 billion at the end of the previous year. The decline in circulation of One Rupee notes and increase in circulation of Rupee Coin was due to gradual replacement of Rupee One note by coin. Rs 2/- coin in circulation at the end of 30th June 2000 amounted to Rs 0.2 billion as against Rs 0.1 billion at the end of the previous year. The circulation of coins of the denomination lower than one rupee including old Half Rupee and Quarter Rupee coins, still in circulation, remained un-changed at last year’s end-June level of Rs 0.7 billion.

Transfer of Assets
According to the provisions of the Pakistan (Monetary System and Reserve Bank) Order, 1947 as amended, the value of assets of the Issue Department of the Reserve Bank of India which became due to Pakistan was as under:-

Against Notes in Circulation

Out of a total of Rs 1.8 billion, assets of Rs 1.3 billion were received by the State Bank of Pakistan and the balance is yet to be transferred by the Reserve Bank of India.

Appointment of Auditors
Under authority from the Central Board, the Governor approved appointment of following two firms of Chartered Accountants as Auditors of the Bank for FY00.

1. M/s Ford, Rhodes, Robson, Morrow
2. M/s A.F. Ferguson & Company

(1) Gold in pursuance of Section 30(2) of the State Bank of Pakistan Act, 1956 has been valued at market value of fine gold contents thereof on the basis of gold rates obtaining in London Bullion Market.

Notes: Entire Capital paid up vests in the Federal Government.
Commitments for forward exchange operations inclusive of SWAPs stood at U.S.$ 3,207.7 million against forward sales.
(2) Refers to scheduled banks.
(3) Represents unrealised appreciation/depreciation on revaluation of Gold.
(4) Includes Contingency Accounts.
(5) Includes Cash and Short Term Securities.
(6) Return on Profit and Loss sharing accounts included in Loans and Advances is accounted for when declared by the 1oanees.
(7) Principally valued at cost.
The assets and liabilities of Pakistan Banking Council (dissolved) have been assumed by the Bank as on January 21, 1997 in pursuance of the Banks Nationalisation Act, 1974 (as modified upto June 7, 1997), and have been incorporated in the books of account as at 30th June, 2000.

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
AS AT 30TH JUNE, 2000

*Return means income from non-interest bearing schemes/investments.

Dated the 24th day of August, 2000.