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CEA Subramanian makes strong case for setting up bad bank led by private sector to deal with NPAs

01 Feb 2021 Evaluate

In order to effectively deal with non-performing assets (NPAs) of the financial sector, Chief Economic Adviser K V Subramanian has made a strong case for setting up of a bad bank led by private sector. He added that NPAs likely to see a surge once regulatory forbearance to deal with the impact of COVID-19 is withdrawn. Bad bank refers to a financial institution which takes over bad assets of lenders and undertakes resolution. Lenders have been making a case for setting up a bad bank to ease out pressure of bad loans on them in these difficult times.

Subramanian said ‘the bad bank will certainly help in consolidating some of the non-performing assets. It's important to also think about implementing the bad bank in the private sector that enables (faster) decision making’. He noted that resolution of bad assets with alacrity in decision making often in the public sector is impacted because of the fear of 3Cs. 3Cs refer to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) and Comptroller and Audit General (CAG). He said ‘so, the bad bank idea itself is actually something which is required at this point in time, but also designing it in the private sector actually has a lot more possibility for it to be effective’.

The proposal to set up a bad bank has been under consideration of the government for long and some steps may be announced in the Budget 2021-22 to be unveiled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Feburay 01, 2021 in the Lok Sabha. Subramanian, the lead author of the Economic Survey 2020-21, has made a case for carrying out a fresh asset quality review (AQR) once the ongoing forbearances related to COVID-19 come to an end. Elaborating on the AQR exercise, he said that it amounts to recognising something bad that is cosmetically covered up.

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