System-wide NPAs stock declines massively to 9.3% in FY19: Crisil

11 Jun 2019 Evaluate

Crisil in its latest report has stated that the system-wide non-performing assets (NPAs) stock declined massively to 9.3 per cent in last fiscal year (FY19), after tripling to 11.5 per cent in the four fiscals till March 2018. The decline was much faster than the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) estimate. In its half-yearly financial stability report in December, the RBI had estimated that the gross non- performing assets ratio might improve to 10.3 per cent by March 2019 from 10.8 per cent in September 2018.

The report said in a sign of possible recovery from the impaired asset load, the gross NPA ratio of both public and private sector banks showed a half-yearly decline, for the first time since March 2015, the financial year prior to the launch of asset quality review by the RBI. Bad loan recognitions accelerated largely due to a nudge from the RBI, which wanted bank balance sheets to reflect a true picture of the stress.

The RBI's asset quality review led to a massive spike in NPAs, and was supported with the enactment of the bankruptcy law for resolving the cases. However, the progress on the bankruptcy cases has not been very fast as the legal provisions keep getting challenged frequently and the lack of precedents results in delays in arriving at resolutions due to legal tangles. This is part of the teething troubles which any legislations goes through.

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