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RBI examining request to ease NPA classification limit beyond 90 days for SMEs

14 Jun 2017 Evaluate

In order to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is examining request to ease non-performing assets (NPAs) classification limit beyond existing 90 days. At present, an account turns into a NPA or a bad loan if it is not serviced for 90 days. In case of small businesses and SMEs payments usually come late and if they miss 90-day period, they fall in the NPA category and their credit line is cut.

According to the some estimates, Indian banks are sitting on unrecognised stressed loans worth Rs 7.7 lakh crore in corporate and SME sectors and expect about 35 percent of them to slip into the NPA category in the next 12-18 months. There is a likelihood of Rs 2.6 lakh crore of corporate and SME loans, which are 3.2 percent of total bank credit to be recognised as stressed loans by 2019. Stressed loans include restructured assets that carry the risk of turning into NPAs.

For bringing NPA situation under control, Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal has stated that there is a need to boost loan restructuring mechanism. Recently, he also said that the government brought in the ordinance giving wide-ranging legislative powers to the RBI on the bad loans front. On the three-year achievements of the Modi government, Meghwal has noted that whenever the review takes place, 2017 will be known as the year of economic reforms. He added that the highlights so far this year are the advancement of the budget, the merger of the railway budget with the general, the budgetary passage before March 31 and the proposed GST rollout from July 1.

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