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DEFINITION:A loan or lease that is not meeting its stated principal and interest
payments. Banks usually classify as nonperforming assets any commercial
loans which are more than 90 days overdue and any consumer loans which
are more than 180 days overdue. More generally, an asset which is not
producing income.
ii.
The account remains 'out of order' for a period of more than 180 days,
in respect of an overdraft/ cash Credit(OD/CC),
iii.
The bill remains overdue for a period of more than 180 days in the
case of bills purchased and discounted,
iv.
v.
ii.
The account remains 'out of order' for a period of more than 90 days, in
respect of an overdraft/ cash Credit(OD/CC),
iii.
The bill remains overdue for a period of more than 90 days in the case
of bills purchased and discounted,
iv.
Seasons but for a period not exceeding two half years in the case of an
advance granted for agricultural purpose, and
v.
OUT
OF
ORDER
OVERDUE
Any amount due to the bank under any credit facility is 'overdue' if it is
not paid on the due date fixed by the bank.
All UCBs other than those referred to at Para 2.1.3 shall classify their
loan accounts as NPA as per 90 day norm as hitherto. However, Gold loans
and small loans up to Rs. 1 lakh will be governed by the 90-day norm with
effect from the year ending March 31, 2007. Till then, they will be governed by
the 180-day norm as thereto.
Agricultural Advance
(i) With effect from September 30, 2004 the following revised norms
are applicable to all direct agricultural advances (as listed in the Annex
a) A loan granted for short duration crops will be treated
as NPA, if the installment of principal or interest thereon
remains overdue for two crop seasons.
b) A loan granted for long duration crops will be treated as
NPA, if the installment of principal or interest thereon
remains overdue for one crop season.
(ii) For the purpose of these guidelines, "long duration" crops would be
crops with crop season longer than one year and crops, which are not
"long duration" crops would be treated as "short duration" crops.
(iii) The crop season for each crop, which means the period up to
harvesting of the crops rose, would be as determined by the State
Level Bankers' Committee in each state.
(iv) Depending upon the duration of crops raised by an agriculturist, the
above NPA norms would also be made applicable to agricultural term
loans availed of by him. In respect of agricultural loans, other than
those specified in the Annex 1 and term loans given to nonagriculturists, identification of NPAs would be done on the same basis
as non-agricultural an advance which, at present, is the 90 days
delinquency norm.
(v) Banks should ensure that while granting loans and advances,
realistic repayment schedules are fixed on the basis of cash flows /
fluidity with the borrowers.
NPA MANAGEMENT
IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL NPA / STRESSED
ASSETS
1. Reckoning of NPA :
A NPA account to be identified based on its status / position of
the accounts erosion in security as on the date of balance sheet of the bank.
Nevertheless, the date of a NPA account would be the actual date on which
the slippage occurred. If an account is regularized before the balance sheet
date by repayment of overdue amount through genuine sources (not by
sanctioning of additional facilities or transfer of funds between accounts), the
account need not be treated as NPA.
It has, however, to be ensured that in the account remains in
order subsequently and a solitary or few credits made in the account on or
before the balance sheet date which extinguishes the overdue amount of
interest or installment of principal is not reckoned as the sole criterion for
treating the asset as standards one.
Step-5: Report to the next higher authority, the details on the above
aspects and suggesting specific corrective measures in time.
Step-6: Implement the corrective action and report to higher authority.
5. Maintaining the Assets Quality :
Post sanction monitoring, supervision, and follow up
Following measures should be put in place.
(i)
(ii)
Verification:
Verification of end use of the funds, stocks and assets by
Bank officials or through duly appointed concurrent auditors as
per norms for effective monitoring of the accounts.
(iii)
Legal Formalities:
Formalities like obtaining / execution of documents /
search certificates, registration of charges, timely revival of the
documents, completion of equitable mortgage formalities etc. as
per norms are the most important steps.
(iv)
Stock Statements:
Branches should obtain stock statements at monthly
intervals regularly. As per RBI guidelines, the outstanding
in the A/C based on the drawing powers calculated from
stock statements older than 3 months would be deemed
as irregular and if such irregular drawings are permitted
for 90 days continuously, the A/C will be NPA.
(v)
Stock audit:
Stock audit is to be conducted every year in every NPA
account with outstanding limit of Rs 1 crore and above.
However, wherever current assets are depleted or unit is
closed, the stipulation may be exempted.
6. Management of NPA:
The RMs personally verify and ensure that all accounts,
especially high value advances are properly classified into
standard, Sub-std. Doubtful or loss categories strictly as per
prudential norms. It will be their responsibility to finalize and
eliminate delay or postponed of identification of NPA.
In case of doubts due to any reason, RMs may seek
guidance from HO and settle the matter within one month from
the date on which the account would have been classified as
NPA as per norms.
It may be noted that if RBI observes any divergences in
asset classification, especially in high value accounts due to
willful non-compliance of RBI guidelines by any official
responsible for classification then RBI may initiate deterrent
action including imposition of monetary penalty.
7. Appropriation of recovery in NPAs:
a) Non decreed accounts:
In case of NPA accounts in all categories i.e. Sub standard,
Doubtful and Loss appropriated first against outstanding in the
account and the surplus available, if any, is to be taken to
interest / income. The same norm will be applicable to the
compromised accounts also.
b) Decreed accounts:
In case of decreed accounts where there is no compromise
settlement amount recovered should be appropriated as per the
decretal terms. However, if there is no specific term as regards
appropriation of recovery in the decrial terms, the recovery
should be appropriated first towards Principal and the balance
towards interest.
MASTER CIRCULAR
ON
INCOME RECOGNITION, ASSET CLASSIFICATION,
PROVISIONING & OTHER RELATED MATTERS
GENERAL
In order to reflect a bank's actual financial health in its balance sheet
and as per the recommendations made by the Committee on Financial
System (Chairman Shri M. Narasimham), the Reserve Bank has introduced,
in a phased manner, prudential norms for income recognition, asset
classification and provisioning for the advances portfolio of the primary
(urban) co-operative banks.
Broadly, the policy of income recognition should be objective and
based on record of recovery rather than on any subjective considerations.
Likewise, the classification of assets of banks has to be done on the basis of
objective criteria, which would ensure a uniform and consistent application of
the norms.
Availability of security or net worth of the borrower/ guarantor should
not be taken into account for the purpose of treating an advance as
nonperforming asset or otherwise. The provisioning should be made on the
basis of the classification of assets into different categories.
The requirements of the State Co-operative Societies Acts and / or
rules made thereunder or other statutory enactments may continue to be
followed, if they are more stringent than those prescribed hereby.
With the introduction of prudential norms, the Health Code based
system for classification of advances has ceased to be a subject of
supervisory interest. As such, all related reporting requirements, etc. also
ceased to be a supervisory requirement, but could be continued in the banks
entirely at their discretion and the management policy, if felt necessary .
(I) In respect of a borrower having more than one facility with a bank,
all the facilities granted by the bank will have to be treated as NPA and
not the particular facility or part thereof which has become irregular.
(ii) However, in respect of consortium advances or financing under
multiple banking arrangements, each bank may classify the borrower
accounts according to its own record of recovery and other aspects
having a bearing on the recoverability of the advances.
Project Financing
Therefore, such amounts of interest do not become overdue and hence
NPA, with reference to the date of debit of interest. They become overdue
after due date for payment of interest, if uncollected.
(i) Where a unit commences commercial production, but the level and
volume of production reached immediately after the date of completion
of the project is not adequate to generate the required cash flow to
service the loan, it may be necessary to re-fix the repayment schedule.
In such cases, the Board of Directors of the bank may lay down broad
parameters for guidance of the staff for taking a view whether the unit
has stabilized commercial production and there is a need for
rescheduling of the loan to treat such advance as NPA or not. In
framing these parameters, the following points may be kept in view:
(C) TREATMENT
OF
STANDARD ACCOUNTS
RESTRUCTURED
SUB-
ASSET CLASSIFICATION
CLASSIFICATION
The primary (urban) co-operative banks should classify their assets
into the following broad groups, viz.
(I) Standard Assets
(ii) Sub-standard Assets
(iii) Doubtful Assets
(iv) Loss Assets
DEFINITIONS
Standard Assets
Standard Asset is one which does not disclose any problems and
which does not carry more than normal risk attached to the business. Such an
asset should not be an NPA.
Sub-standard Assets
(i) With effect from March 31, 2005 an asset would be classified as
sub-standard if it remained NPA for a period less than or equal to 12
months. In such cases, the current net worth of the borrowers/
guarantors or the current market value of the security charged is not
enough to ensure recovery of the dues to the banks in full. In other
words, such assets will have well defined credit weaknesses that
jeopardize the liquidation of the debt and are characterized by the
distinct possibility that the banks will sustain some loss, if deficiencies
are not corrected.
(ii) An asset where the terms of the loan agreement regarding interest
and principal have been re-negotiated or rescheduled after
commencement of production, should be classified as substandard and
should remain in such category for at least 12 months of satisfactory
performance under the re-negotiated or rescheduled terms. In other
words, the classification of an asset should not be upgraded merely as
a result of rescheduling, unless there is satisfactory compliance of this
condition.
Doubtful Assets
With effect from March 31, 2005, an asset is required to be classified
as doubtful, if it has remained NPA for more than 12 months. As in the case of
sub-standard assets, rescheduling does not entitle the bank to upgrade the
quality of an advance automatically.
A loan classified as doubtful has all the weaknesses inherent as that
classified as sub-standard, with the added characteristic that the weaknesses
make collection or liquidation in full, on the basis of currently known facts,
conditions and values, highly questionable and improbable.
Loss Assets
A loss asset is one where loss has been identified by the bank or
internal or external auditors or by the Co-operation Department or by the
Reserve Bank of India inspection but the amount has not been written off,
wholly or partly. In other words, such an asset is considered un-collectible and
of such little value that its continuance as a bankable asset is not warranted
although there may be some salvage or recovery value.
Credit monitoring
Probe :
Obtaining regular and comprehensive information on a
Banks borrower s the step towards effective monitoring system.
We need to probe and evaluate the conduct of a borrowers
account, asses the compliance with loan covenants, understand
the signals supplied by a borrowers financial and market
position, watch the condition of the security provided, and
grasp / signals are just the symptoms and the causes of these
symptoms need to be identified. The causes can be:
Incorrect business decisions
Bad intentions
Adverse market conditions
Unplanned expansions
Action :
The main action plan of credit monitoring is to be able to
act quickly and early. Some of the actions which can be
taken are:
Stipulating higher margin on primary security
Asking for more collateral
Influencing business decisions of the borrower
Infusion of fresh funds
Induction of more banks into the consortium
Calling in the loans
Exit from the account.
I. CHINA:
(a) Causes:
(i) The State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) believe that there the
government will bail them out in case of trouble and so they continue to
take high risks and have not really strived to achieve profitability and to
improve operational efficiency.
(ii) Political and social implications of restructuring big SOEs force the
government to keep them afloat,
(iii) Banks are reluctant to lend to the private enterprises because while
an NPA of an SOE is financially undesirable, an NPA of a private
enterprise is both financially and politically undesirable,
(iv) Courts are not reliable enforcement vehicles.
(b) Measures:
(i) Reducing risk by strengthening banks, raising disclosure standards
and spearheading reforms of the SOEs by reducing their level of debt,
II. KOREA:
(a) Causes:
(i) Protracted periods of interest rate control and selective credit
allocations gave rise to an inefficient distribution of funds,
(ii) Lack of Monitoring Banks relied on collaterals and guarantees in
the allocation of credit, and little attention was paid to earnings
performance and cash flows,
(b) Measurers:
(i) The speedy containment of systemic risk and the domestic credit
crunch problem with the injection of large public funds for bank
recapitalization,
(ii) Corporate Restructuring Vehicles (CRVs) and Debt/Equity Swaps
were used to facilitate the resolution of bad loans,
(iii) Creation of the Korea Asset Management Corporation (KAMCO)
and a NPA fund to fund to finance the purchase of NPAs,
(iv) Strengthening of Provision norms and loan classification standards
based on forward-looking criteria (like future cash flows) were
implemented;
III. JAPAN:
(a) Causes:
(i) Investments was made real estate at high prices during the boom.
The recession caused prices to crash and turned a lot of these loans
bad,
(ii) Legal mechanisms to dispose bad loans were time consuming and
expensive and NPAs remained on the balance sheet, (iii) Expansionary
fiscal policy measures administered to stimulate the economy
supported industrial sectors like construction and real estate, which
may further exacerbated the problem,
(iv) Weak corporate governance coupled with a no-bankruptcy
doctrine, (v) Inadequate accounting systems.
(b) Measures:
(i) Amendment of foreign exchange control law (l997) and the threat of
suspension of banking business in case of failure to satisfy the capital
adequacy ratio prescribed,
(ii) Accounting standards Major business groups established a
private standard-setting vehicle for Japanese accounting standards
(2001) in line with international standards,
(iii) Government Support - The governments committed public funds
to deal with banking sector weakness.
III. PAKISTAN:
(a) Causes:
(i) Culture of "zero equity" projects where there was minimal due
diligence was done by banks in giving loans coupled with collusive
lending and poor corporate
governance,
(ii) Poor entrepreneurship,
(iii) Chronic over-capacity/lack of competitive advantage,
(iv) Directed lending where the senior management of the public
sector banks gave loans to political heavy weights/ military
commanders.
(b) Measures:
(i) The top management of the banks was changed and appointment
of independent directors in the board of directors,
(ii) aggressive settlements were done by banks with their defaulting
borrowers at values well below the actual debt outstanding and/or the
amount awarded through the court process..... i.e., large haircuts/ write
offs,
(iii) setting up of Corporate and Industrial Restructuring Corporation
(CIRC) to take over the non-performing loan portfolios of nationalized
banks on certain agreed terms and conditions and issue government
guaranteed bonds earning market rates of return
(iv) The Banking Companies (Recovery of Loans, Advances, Credits
and Finances) Act, 1997 was introduced in February 1997. Special
banking courts have been established under this Act to facilitate the
recovery of non-performing loans and advances from defaulted
PREVENTION
Credit Disbursal Norms
The bank will ensure that the company / borrower have achieved
financial closure before disbursement to term loans.
Inspection of plant and machinery, land and building and other fixed
assets should be done periodically should be rectified immediately.
The bank shall carry out dynamic financial analysis by scrutinizing the
audited accounts for previous years so as to ascertain the trend of
growth in production, sales, profitability and improvement / impairment
INCOME RECOGNITION
Income Recognition Policy
The policy of income recognition has to be objective and based on the
record of recovery. Income from non-performing assets (NPA) is not
recognized on accrual basis but is booked as income only when it is actually
received. Therefore, banks should not take to income account interest on nonperforming assets on accrual basis.
However, interest on advances against term deposits, NSCs, IVPs,
KVPs and Life policies may be taken to income account on the due date,
provided adequate margin is available in the accounts.
Fees and commissions earned by the banks as a result of
renegotiations or rescheduling of outstanding debts should be recognized on
an accrual basis over the period of time covered by the re-negotiated or
rescheduled extension of credit.
If Government guaranteed advances become 'overdue' and thereby
NPA, the interest on such advances should not be taken to income account
unless the interest has been realized.
current period and should be reversed or provided for with respect to past
periods, if uncollected.
Interest Application
In case of NPAs where interest has not been received for 90 days or
more, as a prudential norm, there is no use in debiting the said account by
interest accrued in subsequent quarters and taking this accrued interest
amount as income of the bank as the said interest is not being received. It is
simultaneously desirable to show such accrued interest separately or park in
a separate account so that interest receivable on such NPA account is
computed and shown as such, though not accounted as income of the bank
for the period.
The interest accrued in respect of performing assets may be taken to
income account as the interest is reasonably expected to be received.
However, if interest is not actually received for any reason in these cases and
the account is to be treated as an NPA at the close of the subsequent year as
per the guidelines, then the amount of interest so taken to income in the
corresponding previous year should be reversed or should be provided for in
full.
With a view to ensuring uniformity in accounting the accrued interest in
respect of both the performing and non-performing assets, the following
guidelines may be adopted notwithstanding the existing provisions in the
respective State Co-operative Societies Act:
(i) Interest accrued in respect of non-performing advances should not
be debited to borrower accounts but shown separately under 'Interest
Receivable Account' on the 'Property and Assets' side of the balance
sheet and corresponding amount shown under 'Overdue Interest
Reserve Account' on the 'Capital and Liabilities' side of the balance
sheet.
(ii) In respect of borrower accounts, which are treated as performing
assets, accrued interest can alternatively be debited to the borrower
account and credited to Interest account and taken to income account.
In case the accrued interest in respect of the borrower account is not
actually realized and the account has become NPA as at the close of
subsequent year, interest accrued and credited to income account in
the corresponding previous year, should be reversed or provided for.
(iii) The illustrative accounting entries to be passed in respect of
accrued interest on both the performing and non-performing advances
are indicated in the Annex 3.
In the above context, it may be clarified that overdue interest reserve is
not created out of the real or earned income received by the bank and as
such, the amounts held in the Overdue Interest Reserve Account can not be
regarded as 'reserve' or a part of the owned funds of the banks. It will also be
observed that the Balance Sheet format prescribed under the Third Schedule
to the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (As Applicable to Co-operative Societies)
specifically requires the banks to show 'Overdue Interest Reserve' as a
distinct item on the 'Capital and Liabilities' side vide item 8 thereof.
PROVISIONING NORMS
Norms for Provisioning on Loans & Advances
In conformity with the prudential norms, provisions should be made on
the non-performing assets on the basis of classification of assets into
prescribed categories as detailed in paragraph 3 above.
Taking into account the time lag between an account becoming
doubtful of recovery, its recognition as such, the realization of the security and
the erosion over time in the value of security charged to the bank, the banks
should make provision against loss assets, doubtful assets and substandard
assets as below:
Gross Net
Net
NPA Advances NPA
1997-98
352697
50815 325522
25734 14.4
7.3
1998-99
399496
58722 367012
27892 14.7
7.6
1999-2000
475113
60408 444292
30211 12.7
6.8
2000-2001
558766
63883 526329
32632 11.4
6.2
%-age of
%-age of
Gross
Net
NPA
to
NPA to net
total
advances
advances
Table
-2
:
NPA
of
Gross
PSBs Total
Advances NPA
(Amount in Crores) Year
Net
NPA
%-age of %-age of
Gross
Net
NPA
to NPA
to
total
net
advances advances
1996-97
244214
9.2 %
1997-98
284971
8.2 %
1998-99
325328
8.1 %
1999-2000
380077
7.9%
2000-2001
442134
6.74%
Table
-3:
NPA of
State
Bank
Gross
Group.. Total
Advances NPA
(Amount in Crores) Year
1997-98
%-age of %-age of
Gross
Net
Net
NPA
to NPA
to
NPA
total
net
advances advances
113360
118959
18641
15.67
7764
7.74 %
%
1999-2000
129253
6.77 %
2000-2001
150390
6.26 %
Table
-4:
NPA
of
Nationalised
Gross
Banks. Total
Advances NPA
(Amount in Crores) Year
Net
NPA
6.98 %
%-age of %-age of
Gross
Net
NPA
to NPA
to
total
net
advances advances
1997-98
166222
8.91
1998-99
188926
8.35
1999-2000
224818
7.80
2000-2001
264237
7.01
As per report appearing in a national daily the banking industry has underestimated its non-performing assets (NPAs) by whopping Rs. 3,862.10 Crore
as on March 1997. The industry is also estimated to have under-provided to
the extent of Rs 1,412.29 Crore.
The worst "offender" is the public sector banking industry. Nineteen
nationalised banks along with the State Bank of India and its seven associate
banks have underestimated their NPAs by Rs 3,029.29 Crore. Such deception
of NPA statistics is executed through the following ways.
IFCI followed with NPAs of Rs 4,103 Crore, but it reported fall of Rs 134
Crore from the previous year's level of Rs 4,237 Crore. ICICI's NPAs went up
to Rs 3,959 Crore from Rs 3,623 Crore in the previous year.
Table
5
NPA Statistics of the
three
Major
Term Total Loans Total Loans NPA
Lending Institutions as 31.3.2000 31.3.2001 31.3.2000
at 31.03.2001. (Amount
in Crores) Name of FI
IDBI
57099
56477
7665
13.4
8363
13.9
ICICI
52341
57507
3959
07.6
2782
05.2
IFCI
19841
18715
4103
20.7
3897
20.8
banks exhibited the severest strain. Commenting on this situation the Reserve
Bank of India in its web-site has pointed out as under:
"Till the adoption of prudential norms relating to income recognition,
asset classification, provisioning and capital adequacy, twenty-six out of
twenty-seven public sector banks were reporting profits (UCO Bank was
incurring losses from 1989-90).
In the first post-reform year, i.e., 1992-93, the profitability of the PSBs
as a group turned negative with as many as twelve nationalised banks
reporting net losses. By March 1996, the outer time limit prescribed for
attaining capital adequacy of 8 per cent, eight public sector banks were still
short of the prescribed."
Consequently PSBs in the post reform period came to be classified
under three categories as
Healthy banks (those that are currently showing profits and hold no
accumulated losses in their balance sheet)
Banks showing currently profits, but still continuing to have
accumulated losses of prior years carried forward in their balance
sheets
Banks which are still in the red, i.e. showing losses in the past and in
the present.
due date/date of ad-hoc sanction will be treated as NPA, which period will be
reduced to 90 days with effect from March 31, 2004.
share of other member banks, the account will be treated as not serviced in
the books of the other member banks, and therefore, be treated as NPA.
The banks participating in the consortium should, therefore, arrange to
get their share of recovery transferred from the lead bank or get an express
consent from the lead bank for the transfer of their share of recovery, to
ensure proper asset classification in their respective books.
CONCLUSION:Npa are usually not good for the banks. Npa should e as minimum as it
can be.
The sugertion for decreasing npa are as follows :