Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that creditors, banks and unsecured creditors would need to take a haircut on their bad loans to resolve the issue of non-performing assets (NPAs), even as defaulting promoters could make their businesses operational again by paying the outstanding interest on the loan. He also said that an ineligibility criteria was required to keep promoters responsible for NPAs from coming back to take over the company.
The minister has said that the government featured later in the waterfall list of creditors involved in the resolution of the NPA, or bad loans, in the Indian banking system that have crossed the staggering level of Rs 8.5 lakh crore. He noted that a haircut signifies accepting a lower than market value for the asset for a resolution of the NPA. Besides, he clarified that management is not barred from making a unit operational if it pays the outstanding interest on the stressed loan. He said 'No one is being barred for life and neither are we asking that you pay the whole amount. Just pay the interest and make the account operational.'
Meanwhile, the Lok Sabha has passed a Bill that seeks to amend the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) to plug potential loopholes and prohibit certain persons, such as wilful defaulters, from submitting resolution plans to let them take charge of the company. It will replace an ordinance promulgated earlier. The IBC, being implemented by the Corporate Affairs Ministry, became operational in December 2016 and provides for a time-bound insolvency resolution process. The changes proposed are expected to help streamline the process of selecting buyers for stressed assets.
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