The bank had paid a billion rupee dividend to the government. NSB group revenue climbed 16 percent to 24 billion rupees (20.7 billion in 2005) while the bank on its own found interest income growing by 15.4 percent to 23.7 billion.
But group net profit after tax fell 9.6 percent to 1,919 million rupees in 2006 from 2,124 million as income tax and financial valued added tax took its toll.
Staff costs also went up 21.8 percent to 1,897 million rupees and retirement benefits rose 26 percent to 838 million.
Meanwhile the bank's fixed deposits based received a setback, falling to 136.3 billion rupees from 138.8 billion in 2005, though savings deposits rose by a 13.9 percent to 70.6 billion rupees from 61.9 billion.
Total deposits, including margin deposits, grew by only to 4.85 percent to 212 billion ru