Non-performing Asset

The New India Co-operative Bank, which has been hit by a Rs 122 crore scam, had given a remission of Rs 1.55 crore to Bollywood actor Preity Zinta to settle her sanctioned loan of Rs 18 crore which it classified as a non-performing asset (NPA), police said on Thursday. The loan was sanctioned in 2011 and the actor settled it in April 2014, an official said. The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police is probing the New India Co-operative Bank embezzlement case. It has so far arrested eight accused in the case, including the bank's former general manager and head of accounts Hitesh Mehta, who was held on February 15. The agency has examined the data of the bank'sA loans from 2010 onwards. "During the investigation, it was found that actor Preity Zinta had taken a loan from the bank. She was sanctioned a loan of Rs 18 crore on January 7, 2011," he said. "She had mortgaged her properties to the bank, which included a flat in Mumbai and a property in Shimla, collectively ...

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On the asset quality front, the Gross Non-Performing Assets (GNPA) was flat at 3.12 per cent sequentially. Meanwhile, the Net NPA of the lender inched down to 0.80 per cent from 0.78 per cent

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Banks have written off bad loans worth Rs 10,09,511 crore during the last five financial years, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman informed Parliament on Tuesday. The non-performing assets (NPAs), including those in respect of which full provisioning has been made on completion of four years, are removed from the balance sheet of the bank concerned by way of write-off, she said in a reply to Rajya Sabha. "Banks write off NPAs as part of their regular exercise to clean up their balance sheet, avail tax benefit and optimise capital, in accordance with RBI guidelines and policy approved by their boards. As per inputs received from RBI, Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) wrote off an amount of Rs 10,09,511 crore during the last five financial years," she said. As borrowers of written-off loans continue to be liable for repayment and the process of recovery of dues from the borrower in written-off loan accounts continues, write-off does not benefit the borrower, she said. Banks continue

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Indian banks are likely to see a 90 basis points fall in gross non-performing assets (NPAs) to 5% in this fiscal year to March and further improve to 4% by end of March 2024, rating agency Crisil said

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State-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) has put up for sale its NPA account Apollo Distilleries & Breweries with loan outstanding of nearly Rs 44 crore due against the company. Inviting asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) to put their bids for transferring the loan account of Apollo Distilleries & Breweries, the city-based lender said it will expedite the due diligence process and make available the documents at one place for verification of the prospective buyer. However, PNB said it will be at its sole discretion to withdraw the account offered for transfer, without assigning any reasons. The last date of submission of expression of interest is August 31, 2022 while the due diligence is to be completed by September 7, said the lender. The tentative date of e-bidding, to happen on a 100 per cent cash basis, is September 12. A subsidiary of Chennai-based Empee Distilleries Ltd (EDL), Apollo Distilleries and Breweries (ADPL) owns and operates a distillery plant with an ...

The bank's managing director and chief executive officer Shanti Lal Jain has said that out of the total eight accounts that were identified in the first phase, three were already resolved

Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad in a written reply to the Lok Sabha said the occurrence of non-performing assets (NPAs) is normal, although an undesirable, corollary to business of banking

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The lender has an exposure of Rs 4,100 crore in the firm and had set a reserve price of Rs 1,423 crore for selling the loan to any ARC, bank, NBFC or a financial institution

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Businesses that didn't slip into NPA till March 1, and were treated as 'standard' accounts will benefit from the scheme which will have to be implemented by March 1, 2021

Rao also said that the normalcy is still too far which is making it difficult to assess the situation of companies in terms of cash-flows