Goa banks seeks RBI relaxation on 'mining dependent' loans

Banks and financial institutions in Goa plan to write to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to relax certain rules to waive interest and 'adjust' loans issued to mining dependent people whose borrowings are likely to turn into bad debts.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar chaired a meeting of banking institutions including co-operative banks, nationalised banks and urban banks to decide on a whopping loans of around Rs 800-1,000 crore left unpaid after the state's mining activity stopped in September 2012.
Parrikar told reporters that banking institutions have decided to write to the RBI to relax certain norms so that the adjustments could be worked out to make repayments easier and affordable.

"Banks have some technical difficulties. Today we adopted a resolution asking the RBI to address these technical difficulties. If required, the state government will also seek RBI intervention. We have requested them to relax certain norms," the Chief minister said.
He said that nowhere in the country where such crises have taken place and the government had intervened to resolve problems of people who are affected by it.
The Chief Minister said that the state government's future course of action to address the problem would be pronounced during the forthcoming State Legislative Assembly session on July 24.
The Goa Chief Minister said that besides banks offering concessions like interest waiver or certain percentages of principal amount waiver, the state government would also chip in with funding.

"What exactly would be the formula adopted by the government to help people repay their loans would be announced in the Goa assembly," Parrikar said.