Expressing hope that a major portion of the banks’ non-performing asset (NPA) issue will be resolved by the end of the current fiscal year 2017-18 or early next year, the principal economic adviser in the finance ministry Sanjeev Sanyal has said that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has already identified 50 large stressed accounts that forms the two-thirds of the over Rs 8 trillion dud loans and banks have started resolving these assets accounts through the bankruptcy code.
Sanyal said that they recognised that it’s painful right now, not only for those 50 companies, but for everybody else because the banking system itself has stopped expanding as a result of this and it has stalled the wider economy. They think this clean-up is necessary and is well underway. He added that after the clean-up, the government will know the recapitalisation amount required for the banks and also said that there are many ways in which bank recapitalisation can be done.
The principal economic adviser further said that at present, cleaning up banks’ balance sheets is the priority of the government and then it will look into other matters such as privatisation. He said ‘For the time being, I think a major clean-up is what has to be done first. Even if you wanted to sell them you cannot do it right now. So, let's clean them up first, expand them, get them healthy and then we can have discussions on their privatisation.’
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