Bank NPAs to touch 12.2% by March 2019: Why RBI’s latest Financial Stability Report is a must-read for LIC
FirstpostFor Indian banking sector, the pain from non-performing assets is far from over. The latest Financial Stability Report from the RBI, released yesterday, gives a baseline scenario of bank’s gross NPAs rising to 12.2 percent by March 2019 from 11.6 percent in March 2018. Even the Rs 2.11 lakh crore capital infusion plan announced by the government for state-run banks is too little, former RBI deputy governor, K C Chakrabarty had warned in October last year. This means, if the NPA picture gets worse, the government’s job of recapitalising 21 state-run banks, 18 of which have NPAs above 10 percent of their total loans, isn’t getting any easier. In the fourth-quarter, IDBI Bank’s net loss widened to Rs 5,662.76 crore as a higher provisioning for NPAs hurt its bottomline.