Govt to soon take effective steps to deal with frivolous bids under IBC: Injeti Srinivas

27 Feb 2019 Evaluate

Corporate Affairs Secretary Injeti Srinivas has said that the government would soon take effective steps to discourage people from making frivolous bids under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). He noted that the IBC mainly seeks to address the issue of stressed assets in a time-bound manner. However, he said that there have been instances where entities have failed to implement the approved resolution plans.

Srinivas said “in some cases after one year or more after settlement has taken place, the resolution applicant has failed to implement the plan. What do we do with such resolution applicants? So much of time and resources (are) used in bringing in a settlement and the insolvency costs (are) huge.” In such cases, he wondered whether the resolution applicant has to bear the entire resolution cost or should there be some criminal proceedings or should they be banned from becoming resolution applicants again.

While noting that the Code has brought in tectonic shift in the relationship between creditors and debtors, Corporate Affairs Secretary said it has also been subject to lot of litigations. He also felt that IBC will play a significant role in India becoming $10 trillion economy. He added that a time would come when the Code becomes the last resort to deal with stressed assets.

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