PSBs recover Rs 222 billion from NPA accounts via one-time settlement

Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have recovered over Rs 222 billion through one-time settlement (OTS) in 2.44 million accounts over the last three years as a part of cleaning up balance sheet. Banks seemed to have stepped up efforts the most in 2017-18 to get about Rs 90 billion from close to one million accounts.

This assumes significance in the light of Sashakt panel’s advice for banks to resort to recoveries through schemes akin to OTS to settle dues of Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) up to Rs 500 million. 

The information presented in the Lok Sabha covers 19 nationalised banks. It does not cover