RBI to take more measures to check NPAs of public sector banks: Subbarao

02 Aug 2013 Evaluate

Concerned over the rising bad loans of the banks, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor D Subbarao has said that the central bank will take more measures to check non-performing assets (NPAs) of the public sector banks.

Subbarao said that rising NPAs of public sector banks is a growing concern for RBI and noted that NPAs in public sector banks are higher than private sector banks because their decision variables are different. The recently released Financial Stability Report (FSR) of RBI blamed seasonality factors for the higher slippages in the March quarter. The gross NPAs of the public sector banks (PSBs) stood highest at 3.8 percent of the assets at the end of the March quarter, followed by foreign lenders. However, the old private sector banks recorded the highest recovery during the period, at 21.2 percent, followed by PSBs at 9.1 percent.

The governor further said that it is important for credit to go to the productive sectors and the RBI is concerned about credit offered at reasonable rates to economically productive activities like agriculture, education loans and small and medium enterprises. Regarding the high cost of agriculture loan in the country, Subbarao said that the cost of credit is determined by the riskiness and banks have attached risk to agricultural loan and therefore, the cost is high.

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