Financial institutions likely to realise Rs 80,000 crore from IBC in FY20: ICRA

09 May 2019 Evaluate

The rating agency ICRA in its latest report has said that financial institutions are likely to realise more than Rs 80,000 crore in the current financial year (2019-20) from the resolution of stressed assets under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), on the back of expected conclusion of the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) of two large accounts - Essar Steel and Bhushan Steel and Power. It noted that this is 21% higher as compared to about Rs 66,000 crore realised in FY19. It added that both Essar Steel and Bhushan Steel and Power are part of the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) list of the 12 largest defaulting companies announced in June 2017.

According to the report, successful completion of the CIRP for these two accounts would bring closure to eight companies from the RBI's list and could help strengthen the confidence in the IBC, despite the significant delays seen in the process with most of the CIRPs lasting more than 500 days. However, despite the hurdles being faced by the IBC, it expects the number of cases being admitted to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to continue to increase, especially from the operational creditors who are responsible for 50 percent of all cases admitted by the NCLT.

ICRA has highlighted that CIRP under the IBC has been hampered over the past two years by the over-burdened NCLT Benches, innumerable litigations, defiant promoters and failing sectors. It also said that even then, the process under the IBC has chugged on, albeit at a slower pace than envisioned. It stated that the NCLTs continue to remain heavily burdened as the number of cases being admitted continues to increase quarter-on-quarter with the highest quarterly admissions of 359 cases reported in Q4 FY19.

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