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Bleeding banks need more than a bandage -Shachi Singh

-GoI Monitor

The NPAs have risen to Rs 10 lakh crore and farm loans make a very small portion of it. Will the recent RBI actions help?

THE RESERVE Bank of India (RBI) has decided to act against 12 big corporates responsible for 25 per cent of the Rs 10 lakh-crore non-performing assets (NPAs) in Indian banks. However, despite Supreme Court's order in 2015, the RBI has refused to make the list of loan defaulters public.

The banking industry is in shambles thanks to high level of NPAs, especially in public banks. According to a report by the Public Finance Public Accountability Collective (PFPAC), the NPAs rose from a mere Rs 50,517 crores in 2007 to Rs 5,41,763 crores in 2016. In a period of six months between September 2015 and March 2016 the amount of NPAs shot up by a staggering 46 percent. That they now stand at Rs 10 lakh crore underscores the economic slowdown and failure of remedial measures.

A CARE Ratings report found that NPAs of 13 public sector banks jumped 57 per cent from Rs 1.67 lakh crore in December 2015 to Rs 2.33 lakh crore in March 2016. These banks added Rs 50,000 crore more in NPAs in the next four quarters till March 2017.

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