Dark clouds for India's public-sector banks

.......The RBI has repeatedly advised banks to strengthen their credit monitoring mechanisms. All the PSBs have thus put in place dedicated credit monitoring departments at the corporate as well as at the secondary and tertiary levels to monitor accounts at an early stage of showing stressed signals. Regardless of these efforts, cash recoveries together with upgradation to standard category have been overshadowed by a higher level of slippages. In the case of the top five to ten banks, the sharp rise in NPA levels is on account of a few big-ticket advances and because some restructured accounts have not turned at the pace anticipated...............

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