INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
To start with, performance in terms of profitability is a benchmark for any business enterprise including the banking industry. Extension of credit is one of the major activities of banks and financial institution. Credit represents the bulk of the bank and financial institution’s asset portfolio. However, increasing NPAs have a direct impact on banks profitability as legally banks are not allowed to book income on such accounts and at the same time banks are forced to make provision on such assets as per the central Bank guidelines. Also, with increasing deposits made by the public in the banking system, the banking industry cannot afford defaults by borrower s since NPAs affects the repayment capacity of banks. Further, central Bank successfully creates excess liquidity in the system through various rate cuts and banks fail to utilize this benefit to its advantage due to the fear of burgeoning non-performing assets.
Economic development is the foundation development of any country. Economic development is supported by the financial infrastructure of that country. Financial institution constitutes an important part of the financial infrastructure. The main function of the bank is the collection of idle funds and mobilizes them to productive sector causing overall economic development, which finally leads to national development of the country. Bank pools the fund through deposit and mobilize them to productive sector in the form of loans and advances. Bank is the financial institution which deals with money by accepting by accepting various types of deposits, disbursing loan and rendering various types of financial services. It is the intermediary between the deficit and surplus of financial sources.
It cannot be denied that the issue of development rest upon the mobilization of resources and the bank deals in process of channelising the available resources in the needed sectors. Commercial bank
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