Credit rating agency, Care Ratings in its latest report ‘NPAs of Banks - 20 banks’ has said that overall Non-performing Assets (NPAs) in the banking sector surged by 32.7% to Rs 3.46 lakh crore at the end of March 2018 from Rs 2.61 lakh crore in the year-ago period. The study report based on 20 banks, includes 11 private sector banks and remaining 9 are public sector banks (PSBs).
According to the report, all the banks have witnessed rise in NPA ratio except Yes Bank and Kotak Bank in the private sector and Vijaya Bank and Indian Bank in the PSBs. Besides, it noted that in March 2018, NPAs for the combined set of banks rose to 8.32% from 7.17% reported in March 2017.
The rating agency further said that Axis Bank reported the highest rise in terms of NPA ratio on year-on-year basis among private banks, while UCO Bank, Dena Bank, Union Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Allahabad Bank and Bank of Maharashtra were the PSBs who have showed highest increase in NPA ratio over the year.
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