Rival investors are up in arms as the Adani group makes a last-minute attempt to acquire a bankrupt home-loan company in India. One such investor, the Piramal group, has written a letter to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi claiming that Adani’s attempt violates the rules of the bidding process.
This Newsclick exclusive is Part 1 of a three-part series on how the Modi government pushed banks into repeatedly lending to cronies, adding to the bad loan mountain. A company linked to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari allegedly received loans from Bank of Maharashtra in violation of the bank’s own policies and received multiple subsequent loans to prevent the account from becoming an NPA.
Total NPAs reached a whopping Rs 9.5 lakh crore by end March 2018. India’s banking sector, the foundation of our modern economy, is in crisis. A spate of scams has dragged the credibility of India’s biggest private and public sector banks through the mud. Even more dangerous is a Debt Bomb of bad loans that has grown almost 17 times bigger in the past 10 years.
