Recovery Of Npas Through Debt Recovery Channels In Indian Banks - An Analysis
Indian Banking industry is grappling with the colossal Non-performing assets in the recent past. The amount of stressed advances was enlarged and the trend of NPA recovery remains sluggish in the Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs). According to the RBI’s Report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India (2016), “Annual recovery rate of NPAs of SCBs has been steadily declining for the past 12 years and hit the lowest level of 20.8% during 2016-17”. Existing recovery channels, namely, Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT), Lok Adalat and Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002(SARFAESI Act 2002) have witnessed the reduction in their rate of NPA recovery. In this study, an attempt is made to examine the effectiveness these channels in the reduction of NPAs. The effectiveness of the recovery channels is analyzed on the basis of the amount of NPAs recovered during the period of 13 years from 2005 to 2017. To understand the significant difference in the trend of NPA recovery among the existing channels, statistical test of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) has been used.