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UCO Bank to sell NPAs worth Rs 2,000 crore

The net NPA was 8.99% at the end of the third quarter of 2016-17

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At the end of December quarter, Kolkata-based UCO Bank’s NPLs were 17.18 per cent of the total loans made

Namrata Acharya Kolkata
UCO Bank is planning to sell bad loans worth around Rs 2,000 crore to asset reconstruction companies in the first half of the current financial year. The bank is also working on a one-time non-performing asset (NPA) resolution scheme, among other measures, to shed bad loans off its books.
 
The bank’s gross NPA as percentage of total advances at the end of quarter ended December 31, 2016 was as high as 17.18 per cent, compared to 10.98 per cent in the corresponding period of the previous year. The net NPA, however, was 8.99 per cent at the end of