Non-Performing Assets of Public and Private Sector Banks

Non-Performing Assets of Public and Private Sector Banks The quality of Indian banks’ assets is likely to deteriorate over the next two years. This will be driven by the slowdown in the economy, and by the aging of loans made in recent years. The NPAs are considered as an important parameter to judge the performance and financial health of banks. The level of NPAs is one of the drivers of financial stability and growth of the banking sector. The Financial companies and institutions are nowadays facing a major problem of managing the Non Performing Assets (NPAs) as these assets are proving to become a major setback for the growth of the economy. NPAs in simple words may be defined as the borrower does not pay principal and interest for a period of 180 days. However, it is taken into consideration now that default status would be given to a borrower if dues are not paid for 90 days. If any advance or credit facility granted by the bank to a borrower becomes non-performing, then the bank will have to treat all the advances/credit facilities granted to that borrower as non-performing without having any regard to the fact that there may still exists certain advances / credit facilities having performing status.
Asset Classification
Categories of NPAs
Standard Assets:
Standard assets are the ones in which the bank is receiving interest as well as the principal amount of the loan regularly from the customer. Here it is also very important that in this case the arrears of interest and the principal amount of loan do not exceed 90 days at the end of financial year. If asset fails to be in category of standard asset that is amount due more than 90 days then it is NPA and NPAs are further need to classify in sub categories. Banks are required to classify non-performing assets further into the following three categories based on the period for which the asset has remained non-performing and the realisability of the dues:
(1) Sub-standard Assets
(2) Doubtful

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