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        CRISIS TILL THE                                                        mismanagement.

                                                                                     Nevertheless, in classic In-
        COWS COME HOME,                                                        dian fashion,  right  at the elev-
                                                                               enth hour, a surprising sally of
                                                                               rebounding balance seems to
        THE AGE OF NAYSAYING NPAS’ STOPLESS SAGA                               crack its way through the tenter-
                                                                               hooks that the banking appara-
                                            A Literary Review Paper,           tus was teetering on. Just as the
                                                     Raghu R. Rathore          doctor ordered, the most recent
                                                                               round of the bi-annual Financial
                    he air of financial  high tens of percentage points,
        T           punditry across the  peaking disconcertingly high at       analysts and the actualists at RBI
                                                                               Stability Report furnished by the
                    Indian
                                econom- nearabout the 9% mark, ruffling
                                                                               brought in good tidings. With the
                    ic sphere is awash  quite a few feathers. And with
           Twith the sound of  a backdrop of crippling recov-                  glimmering silver lining coming
                                                                               in the way of a starkly discern-
        entrenched dissonance grum- ery-impotence spiced further by            ible drop in the dreaded GNPAs,
        bling in circles. Tolling the warn- the pandemic induced downturn      though perhaps in the disguise
        ing bells for an onrushing debt  further putting a quasi-kibosh        of delineated dispensations. A
        typhoon, with the NPA circus at  on small-scale repayments, the        southward tending trend at 7.5%
        its forefront. And by the looks of  writing looked set on the wall for   of all SCBs’ averaged GNPA ra-
        it, the analytical histrionics were  crumbling crises in tow. Leaving   tios strongly seconds a salvag-
        far from misplaced. With Gross  the finance machinery deep in          ing sortie spouting hope that
        NPA ratios (stacked against to- the red, red-faced in their inept-     the regulatory buttress of the
        tal advances) bobbing over the  itude and red-handed in their          nation’s framework stands tena-

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