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Bid to clear India's corporate bad debt hits hurdles
Published Wed, Dec 9, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Mumbai
A TOOL provided by India's central bank to help lenders tackle bad debts is instead helping to camouflage the scale of the problem, evidence of how the country's banks will struggle to meet an ambitious clean-up target in 16 months' time.
India's banks are grappling with more than US$110 billion of corporate stressed debt, a burden that is holding back fresh loans and hampering a speedier economic recovery.
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