Tuesday, December 17, 2013

How 'wilful defaults', write-offs cost banks Rs 1.6 lakh cr last decade

.........RBI numbers showed that the banks added Rs 494,836 crore to their bad loans between 2007 and 2013. During the same period, they reduced NPAs to the extent of Rs 350,332 crore. This was possible because loans worth Rs 141,295 crore were written off; another Rs 90,887 crore were upgraded to repaying loans; and a small part — Rs 118,149 crore — was recovered from defaulters. As Chakrabarty explained, after a technical write-off there is no incentive to pursue recovery...........

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