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PSBs put Rs 1-trn bad loans on sale as delays plague bankruptcy proceedings

Dragging cases in NCLT would mean higher provisioning in next quarter

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Namrata AcharyaAbhijit Lele Kolkata/Mumbai
Several public sector banks are planning to sell their bad loans, including those being litigated at the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), in order to enter 2019-20 with fewer stressed assets on their books.

Bankruptcy proceedings are going at a slower pace than what the bankers had envisaged and many cases have gone beyond the 270-day timeline set under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) mainly because of litigation.

A senior IDBI Bank executive said, “Bankers are becoming impatient because many big-ticket cases don’t seem to be going anywhere.”

United Bank of India (UBI) has identified loans worth Rs 3,000