The revised norms mandated that the committee should be chaired by an independent director and have a minimum two independent directors, including the chair
Three players -- JM Financial ARC, Edelweiss ARC, and ARCIL -- have a dominant presence in the sector with a sound capital base and management bandwidth
Reliance Communications, then owned by Anil Ambani, had to shut down its business operations as a result of its high debt burden and a failed merger with Aircel
About 80 per cent of the recovery ARCs made came through the "deployment of measures of reconstruction that do not necessarily lead to revival of businesses"
RBI asked ARCs to adopt a board-approved 'Fair Practices Code', which, among other things, should prohibit the use of uncivilised, unlawful and questionable behaviour for recovery of loans