In order to discuss the challenges of managing the stressed assets of banks and the implementation of various remedial measures, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan and deputy governors R Gandhi and SS Mundra, held a meeting with senior executives of major banks, nonbanking financial companies and asset reconstruction companies. In the meeting banks and finance companies have suggested to the RBI several measures that can be taken to stem the rising levels of bad loans, which are eating into bank profitability and eroding investor confidence.
RBI said that it received several suggestions at the meeting which will be examined by the Central Bank. The discussion which was held during the meeting includes the functioning of the joint lenders' forum (JLF) mechanism, flexible restructuring of long-term project loans, strategic debt restructuring (SDR) scheme and regulations on the sale of assets by banks to asset reconstruction companies.
Earlier, the RBI has asked banks to clean up their balance sheets by March 2017. Many lenders could report a steep fall in profit in the second half of the current financial year because of higher levels of provisioning after the RBI issued a list of 150 truant accounts in the first week of December and asked banks to downgrade the loans because they were showing signs of weakness.
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