Raising concerns over the accumulation of bad loans or non-performing assets (NPAs) in banking sector, credit rating agency, Crisil in its latest report has said that banks with high NPAs continue to choke Indian economy. Rs 11.5 lakh crore of bad loans is estimated as of March 31, 2017 in the sector.
Crisil further termed India Inc’s credit quality as a tale of two distinct loan books, by distinguishing in good and bad one. It said that the good one is where improvements have been seen over the past year, and which should sustain, while bad one is where sizeable stressed assets exist. However, the rating agency found improvement in the credit ratio of corporates on the back of better financial metrics.
The report also noted that debt-weighted credit ratio of the companies surged to 3.19 times first half as against 0.88 times during the period a year ago. The credit ratio stood at 1.59 times and the debt-weighted credit ratio at 1.94 times, indicating that the trend of recovery in credit quality has sustained for a year now. A reading above 1 indicates upgrades outnumbering downgrades. On a rolling 12 months average basis, for the first time in the past five years, both these ratios are above 1. Crisil gave credit of improvement in credit ratio to the better financial indicators as corporates kept away from capex given the output gap-or substantial headroom in capacity utilisation-in many sectors. It is also expecting continuation in the upward trend till demand firms up and added that lower interest costs will provide further support.
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