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The Indian government must heed the RBI’s message on financial stability, IMF’s Chief Economist Maurice Obstfeld has said, amidst reports of friction between the central bank and the finance ministry over several issues, including how much capital the apex bank needs.
Internal processes in banks have still not caught up with the changes in the external environment relating to the recovery of non-performing loans
MUMBAI, JUNE 5
As much as ₹5-lakh crore of bank loans deteriorated into the non-performing asset (NPA) category in fiscal 2018, according to credit rating agency Crisil.
But the tide seems to be turning, given the sharp reduction in SMA (special mention account)-2 cases and better NPA recovery prospects, it added. An SMA-2 account is a stressed account where the principal or interest payment or any other amount, wholly or partly, is overdue between 61 and 90 days.
Crisil said the total slippages in the past three fiscals amounted to ₹13.6-lakh crore.
It assessed that about a fifth of the slippages last fiscal (FY2018) was due to the withdrawal of various structuring schemes by the RBI in February 2018 after the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) process came into force.
As a result, gross NPAs increased to about ₹10.3-lakh crore, or about 11.2 per cent of advances, as on March 31, 2018, compared with ₹8-lakh crore, or about 9.5 per cent of advances, as on March 31, 2017.
Around 14% of the bad loans in public sector banks (PSBs) are due to wilful defaulters. The total gross non-performing assets (NPAs) of 21 PSBs stood at Rs 7.33 lakh crore as on September 30, 2017. Of this, Rs 1.01 lakh crore of loans were termed as those in wilful default.
NEW DELHI: Gross Non-performing Assets (NPAs) of banks crossed Rs 8.50 lakh crore at the end of September 2017, Minister of State for Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla informed the Lok Sabha.
A majority of companies on RBI’s second list of loan defaulters, including Monnet Power and Visa Steel, will be referred to NCLT for bankruptcy proceedings
The assets of some of the 40 top defaulters (12 in the first list and 28 in the second) are likely to be sold over the next few months as RBI and the government push lenders to speed up the resolution of Rs10 trillion of soured loans.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday sought to allay the fears of bank account holders, saying their deposits in banks will be safe and their interests would not be harmed in any way.
In August, the Reserve Bank had asked banks to either resolve 28 more large stressed accounts by tomorrow or refer them to the NCLT by December 31.These 28 accounts together account for 40 per cent of the system wide bad loans or worth around Rs 4 trillion.
Govt to amend insolvency and bankruptcy rules via ordinance, will block promoters deemed wilful defaulters from regaining control of firms.