Exemption from paying compound interest, how many people will benefit ?, the report claims.
Mumbai, 26 October 2020 Monday More than 40 per cent of loans taken from banks and financial institutions and 75 per cent of borrowers will benefit from the decision to provide relief from compound interest. So, this decision will increase the burden on the exchequer by about Rs 7,500 crore. That is stated in a report. The government had told the Supreme Court last Friday that it would waive compound interest on loans up to Rs 2 crore. Under this, banks will be provided the amount of the difference between compound interest and plain interest. He said that all the borrowers will get this facility. Then whether or not to take advantage of the moratorium. But the condition for this is that the loan installment should be paid by the end of February i.e. the loan concerned is not a non-performing asset (NPA). "This type of loan is 40 percent of the loans provided by the institutional system (banks, financial institutions)," Crisil said in a report on Monday. This will benefit 7...