RBI has laid down some certain broad principles for lenders relating to their participation in Government Debt Relief Scheme (DRS).
It is including sacrifice of interest and/or principal and loan account status.
This comes in the backdrop of States announcing the DRS to provide relief to borrowers.
This includes farmers during natural calamities or political parties promising the same for a targeted segment of borrowers in the run up to elections.
Any waiver of accrued but unrealised interest and/ or sacrifice of principal will be treated as a compromise settlement.
It would be attracting usual provisioning and asset classification norms.