<span style="color: #222222;">Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the Indian public sector banks had the worst phase under the combination of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan.<br />''<br />'' She said that giving all the public sector banks a lifeline is her primary duty today. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">She was delivering a lecture on the topic 'Indian Economy: Challenges and Prospects' at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs yesterday.   </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Referring to Article 370 abrogation in Jammu and Kashmir, she said article 370 denied women from the state inheritance rights and this was a serious human rights violation that no one spoke about but human rights has become a global buzzword following the revocation of the temporary Constitutional provision. She said that Article 370 denied fundamental rights to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' The event was also attended by former NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Arvind Panagariya, Professor and Economist Jagdish Bhagwati and India's Consul General in New York, Sandeep Chakravorty. </span><br />'' <br />''  <br />