The Finance Ministry has asked the public sector banks to expedite the recovery process and bring down net non-performing asset (NPAs) to 1% of their total advances by the end of 2013-14 fiscal. Earlier, Finance Minister P Chidambaram had also asked banks to take firm steps against affluent promoters to recover loans from sick companies owned by them.
Department of Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Takru said that banks are free to choose the way like specialized recovery branch or other method in which they can bring down their bad loans. Bad loans recovery has improved in the past one or two months and banks will take more steps to deal with the rising NPAs, he added.
By the end of December 2012, gross NPAs of public sector banks rose to 4.18% of advances as compared to 3.22% a year ago. Net NPAs, which are arrived at after making provisions from the gross amount increased to 2% in December 2012. In absolute term, gross NPA of PSU banks jumped to Rs 184,193 crore in December 2012 compared to Rs 137,102 crore in March 2012.
Further, the gross NPA in corporate lending surged to Rs 98,884 crore in December, as against Rs 68,221 crore in March. In the case of farm loans, the gross NPA rose to Rs 30,800 crore in December as against Rs 24,827 crore in March.
Recently, the finance ministry suggested the state-runs banks to review their top 300 non-performing accounts by their board's management committee and also implement a strict recovery policy, especially in cases where defaulting companies have affluent promoters. The finance ministry also asked the banks to take the support from Lok Adalats and recovery camps to check fresh slippages and devise a strategy for their minimization.
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