Banks misguide investors on loans: SBI

"You have misguided your investors for the past five years by not giving your proper NPA (non-performing assets) figures," he told a banking technology summit organised by the industry body CII here.

The senior-most deputy governor who oversees the banking services at the monetary authority, also wondered as to how an inanimate object like the "system" can generate NPAs and said the markets regulator Sebi should look into this issue.

"Should not the (markets) regulator (Sebi), who is dealing with listing, take action against banks?" he asked.

Wondering how even after computerisation, banks are unable to identify NPAs, Chakrabarty said, "so long as system-generated NPAs were not there, was the computer giving wrong figures?"

The deputy governor's comments come in light of a slew of banks, especially the state-run ones like Central Bank of India and Union Bank of India, among others, reporting massive dent in their profits and attributing the same to migration to the system-generated approach of identifying bad loans, over the last fiscal.

"I do not want to negate what he (Chakrabarty) said. But it is not that on a very big scale the bankers have all of a sudden come out with this situation," Central Bank Chairman and Managing Director M V Tanksale told reporters when sought for his comments on the sidelines of the same event.

Tanksale also explained

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