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Reserve Bank of India (Regional Rural Banks – Financial Statements: Presentation and Disclosures) Directions, 2025

RBI/2025-26/--

DOR.ACC.REC.N0./ 00-00-000/2025-26

XX, 2025

Reserve Bank of India (Regional Rural Banks – Financial Statements: Presentation and Disclosures) Directions, 2025

Table of Contents

Chapter I - Preliminary
A. Short title and commencement
B.Applicability
Chapter II - Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account
A.Format of the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account
B.Notes and instructions for compilation
C.Guidance on specific issues with respect to certain Accounting Standards
Chapter III - Disclosure in Financial Statements – Notes to Accounts
A.General
B.Presentation
C.Disclosure requirements
Chapter IV - Other Instructions
A.Inter-branch account – provisioning for net debit balance
B.Reconciliation of Nostro account and treatment of outstanding entries
C.Transfer to/appropriation from Reserve funds
D.Provisioning for fraud
E.Unreconciled balances
F.Deferred tax liability (DTL) on Special Reserve created under Section 36(1) (viii) of the Income Tax Act, 1961
G.Window dressing
Chapter V - Repeal and Other Provisions
A.Repeal and saving
B.Application of other laws not barred
C.Interpretations
Annex - I

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 35A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, the Reserve Bank of India being satisfied that it is necessary and expedient in the public interest and in the interest of banking policy to do so, hereby, issues the Directions hereinafter specified.

Chapter I - Preliminary

A. Short title and commencement

1. These Directions shall be called the Reserve Bank of India (Regional Rural Banks - Financial Statements: Presentation and Disclosures) Directions, 2025.

2. These Directions shall come into force with immediate effect.

B. Applicability

3. These Directions shall be applicable to all Regional Rural Banks (hereinafter collectively referred to as 'banks' and individually as a 'bank').

Chapter II - Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account

A. Format of the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account

4. In terms of the provisions of Section 29 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, a bank shall in respect of all business transacted by it prepare a balance sheet and profit and loss account as on the last working day of the year or the period, as the case may be, in the Forms set out in the Third Schedule of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949. In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 29(4) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, the Government of India has specified the Forms in the Third Schedule, vide notification S.O.240(E) dated March 26, 1992, published in the Gazette of India. These are reproduced in Annex I to these Directions.

B. Notes and instructions for compilation

5. A bank shall follow the general instructions for the compilation of balance sheet and profit and loss account as specified in subparagraph (1) below. A bank shall ensure strict compliance with the Accounting Standards notified under the Companies (Accounting Standards) Rules, 2021, as amended from time to time, subject to Directions / Guidelines issued by the RBI.

Note: Mere mention of an activity, transaction or item in instructions for compilation does not imply that it is permitted, and the bank shall refer to the extant statutory and regulatory requirements while determining the permissibility or otherwise of an activity or transaction.

(1) Instructions for compilation of balance sheet

Item

Sch

 

Coverage

Notes and instructions for compilation

Capital

1

 

Nationalised Banks

 

Banks incorporated outside India: Capital

 

Other Banks (Indian)

Authorised Capital

(__ shares of ₹ ___ each)

Issued Capital

(__ shares of ₹ ___ each)

Subscribed Capital

(__ shares of ₹ ___ each)

Called up Capital

(__ shares of ₹ ___ each)

Less: Calls unpaid

Add: Forfeited shares

Paid up Capital

Authorised, Issued, Subscribed, Called-up capital shall be given separately. Calls in arrears will be deducted from Called-up capital while the paid-up value of forfeited shares shall be added thus arriving at the paid-up capital. Where necessary, items which can be combined shall be shown under one head, for instance ‘Issued and Subscribed Capital’.

Notes - General:

1. The changes in the above items, if any, during the year, say, fresh contribution made by Government, fresh issue of capital, capitalisation of reserves, etc. shall be explained in the notes.

2. Perpetual Non-Cumulative Preference Shares (PNCPS) included as part of Tier 1 regulatory capital shall be included here.

Reserves and Surplus

2

(I)

Statutory Reserves

Reserves created out of the profits in compliance with section 17(1) (read with paragraph 13 of this Master Direction) or any other section of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 shall be separately disclosed.

(II)

Capital Reserves

The expression ‘Capital Reserves’ shall not include any amount regarded as free for distribution through the Profit and Loss Account. Surplus on revaluation shall be treated as Capital Reserves.

(III)

Share Premium

Premium on issue of share capital shall be shown separately under this head.

(IV)

Revenue and Other Reserves

The expression ‘Revenue Reserve’ shall mean any reserve other than Capital Reserve. This item will include all reserves, other than those separately classified. The expression ‘reserve’ shall not include any amount retained by way of providing for depreciation, renewals or diminution in value of assets or retained by way of providing for any known liability. Investment Reserve Account and Investment Fluctuation Reserve shall be shown under this head.

(V)

 

 

 

Includes balance of profit after appropriations. In case of loss the balance shall be shown as a deduction.

Notes - General:

Deposits

3

A.I)

Demand Deposits

 

(i)

From banks

Includes all bank deposits repayable on demand.

(ii)

 

Includes all demand deposits of the non-bank sectors.

Credit balances in overdrafts, cash credit accounts, deposits payable at call, overdue deposits, inoperative current accounts, matured time deposits, cash certificates and certificates of deposits, etc. shall be included under this category.

(II)

Savings Bank Deposits

Includes all savings bank deposits (including inoperative savings bank accounts)

(III)

Term Deposits

 

(i)

From banks

Includes all types of bank deposits repayable after a specified term.

(ii)

 

Includes all types of deposits of the non-bank sector repayable after a specified term.

Fixed deposits, cumulative and recurring deposits, cash certificates, certificates of deposits, annuity deposits, deposits mobilised under various schemes, ordinary staff deposits, foreign currency non-resident deposits accounts, etc. shall be included under this category.

B. i)

 

ii)

Deposits of branches in India

The total of these two items should match the total deposits shown in the balance sheet.

Notes - General:

1. Interest payable on deposits which is accrued but not due shall not be included but shown under other liabilities.

2. Matured term deposits shall be treated as demand deposits.

3. Deposits under special schemes shall be included under term deposits if they are not payable on demand. When such deposits have matured for payment, they shall be shown under demand deposits.

4. Deposits from a bank will include deposits from the banking system in India, Co-operative banks, Foreign banks which may or may not have a presence in India.

5. A bank shall disclose by way of a footnote to this schedule, the amount of deposits against which lien is marked out of the total deposits. (For current and previous year)

 

Borrowings

 

4

 

(I)

 

Borrowings

 

(i)

RBI

Includes repo, other borrowings or refinance obtained from RBI.

(ii)

Other banks

Includes repo, other borrowings or refinance obtained from banks (including Co-operative banks) and balances in Repo Account.

(iii)

Other institutions and agencies

Includes borrowing / refinance obtained from Export-Import Bank of India, NABARD and other institutions, agencies (including liability against participation certificates-without risk sharing, if any) and balances in Repo Account.

(II)

Borrowings outside India

Includes borrowings from outside India.

Secured borrowings included in above

This item shall be shown separately. Includes secured borrowings / refinance in India and outside India.

   

Notes - General:

1. The total of I and II should match the total borrowings shown in the balance sheet.

2. Inter-office transactions shall not be shown as borrowings.

3. Refinance obtained by a bank from RBI and various institutions shall be shown under the head ‘Borrowings’. Accordingly, advances shall be shown at the gross amount on the asset side.

4. The following shall be included here:

a) Perpetual Debt Instruments

b) Tier 2 Capital Instruments / Upper Tier 2 Capital Instruments

c) Subordinated Debt.

Other Liabilities and Provisions

5

(I)

Bills Payable

Includes drafts, telegraphic transfers, traveller’s cheques, mail transfers payable, pay slips, bankers cheques and other miscellaneous items.

(II)

Inter-office adjustments (net)

The inter-office adjustments balance, if in credit, shall be shown under this head. The bank should first segregate the credit entries outstanding for more than 5 years in the inter-branch account and transfer them to a separate Blocked Account which should be shown under ‘Other Liabilities and Provisions - Others’. While arriving at the net amount of inter-branch transactions for inclusion here, or Schedule 11, as the case may be, the aggregate amount of Blocked Account should be excluded and only the amount representing the remaining credit entries should be netted against debit entries. Only net position of inter-office accounts, shall be shown here.

(III)

Interest accrued

Includes interest accrued but not due on deposits and borrowings.

(IV)

Others (including provisions)

Includes net provision for income tax and other taxes like interest tax (less advance payment, tax deducted at source, etc.), deferred tax (if after netting as per AS 22 is a liability), floating provisions, contingency funds which are not disclosed as reserves but are actually in the nature of reserves, other liabilities which are not disclosed under any of the major heads such as unclaimed dividend, provisions and funds kept for specific purposes, unexpired discount, outstanding charges like rent, conveyance, etc. Aggregate Net Credit in the Clearing Differences transferred to a separate Blocked Account shall be shown here. Outstanding credit entries in nostro accounts transferred to Blocked Account shall also be shown here.   

Notes - General:

1. For arriving at the net balance of inter-office adjustments all connected inter-office accounts shall be aggregated and the net balance only will be shown, representing mostly items in transit and unadjusted items.

2. The interest accruing on all deposits, whether the payment is due or not, shall be treated as a liability.

3. It is proposed to show only deposits under the head ‘deposits’ and hence all surplus provisions for bad and doubtful debts, contingency funds, etc. which are not netted off against the relative assets, shall be brought under the head ‘Others (including provisions)’.

4. Provisions towards Standard Assets shall not be netted from gross advances and shown separately as ‘Provisions against Standard Assets’ under ‘Others’ in Schedule 5 of the Balance Sheet.

5. Where any item under the ‘Others (including provisions)’ exceeds one percent of the total assets, particulars of all such items shall be disclosed in the notes to accounts.

ASSETS

 

 

 

 

Cash and balances with the RBI

6

(I)

Cash in hand (including foreign currency notes)

Includes cash in hand including foreign currency notes.

(II)

Balances with RBI

(i) in Current Account

(ii) in Other Accounts

All type of reverse repos with the RBI including those under Liquidity Adjustment Facility shall be presented under sub-item (ii) ‘in Other Accounts’.

Balances with banks and money at call and short notice

7

(I)

(i)

(a)

(b)

In India

Balances with banks

in Current Accounts

in Other Deposit Accounts

Includes all balances with banks in India (including Co-operative banks), except Money at Call and Short Notice as explained below.

Balances in current account and other deposit accounts shall be shown separately.

(ii)

(a)

(b)

Money at Call and Short notice

with other institutions

Includes the following if they are for original tenors up to and inclusive of 14 days:

  1. Money lent in the call / notice money market
  2. Reverse Repo with banks and other institutions

The balances in Reverse Repo A/C shall be classified under Schedule 7 under item I (ii) a or I (ii) b as appropriate.

(II)

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

Outside India

in Current Accounts

in Other Deposit Accounts

Money at Call and Short Notice

Includes balances:held outside India by the Indian branches of the bank.

The amounts held in ‘current accounts’ and ‘deposit accounts’ shall be shown separately.

‘Money at Call and Short Notice’ outside India includes deposits usually classified as per that foreign jurisdiction’s laws, regulations, or market practices as money at call and short notice where such money is lent.

Investments

8

(I)

Investments in India in

 

(i)

Government securities

Includes Central and State Government Securities and Government Treasury Bills.

(ii)

Other Approved Securities

Securities other than Government Securities, which have been specified by the RBI as ‘approved securities’ under section 5(a) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 shall be included here.

(iii)

Shares

Investments in shares of companies and corporations not included in item (ii) shall be included here.

(iv)

Debentures and Bonds

Investments in debentures (as defined by the Companies Act, 2013) and bonds of companies and corporations not included in item (ii) shall be included here.

(v)

Subsidiaries and / or Joint Ventures

-

(vi)

Others

Residual investments, if any, like mutual funds, gold, etc.

(II)

Investments outside India

 

(i)

Government Securities (including local authorities)

All foreign Government Securities including securities issued by local authorities shall be classified under this head.

(ii)

Subsidiaries and / or Joint ventures abroad

 

(iii)

Others investments

All other investments outside India shall be shown under this head.

Advances

9

A.(i)

 

 

 

 

(ii)

 

 

 

 

(iii)

Bills purchased and discounted

 

 

 

Cash credits, overdrafts and loans repayable on demand

 

 

 

In classification under section A, all outstanding advances net of provisions made, will be classified under three heads as indicated and shall include both secured and unsecured advances as well as overdue instalments.

Receivables acquired under factoring shall be reported under ‘Bills purchased and Discounted’.

All loans repayable on demand and short-term loans with original maturity up to one year shall be classified under ‘Cash credits, overdrafts and loans repayable on demand’.  Outstanding balances on credit cards shall be included under this category. Other balances pertaining to credit operations, even if they are dues from other banks / organisations shall be shown as part of advances.  However, where such dues are in the nature of fee or other revenue receivable the same may be shown as Other Assets.

B.(i)

Secured by tangible assets

All advances or part of advances including advances against book debts which are secured by tangible assets shall be shown here. The item will include secured advances both in and outside India.

The bank shall specify that advances secured by tangible assets includes advances against book debts.

(ii)

Covered by Bank/Government Guarantee

Advances to the extent they are covered by guarantees of Indian / foreign governments, Indian / foreign banks, Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India (ECGC) shall be included here. Further, advances to the extent they are covered by Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) and Credit Risk Guarantee Fund Trust for Low Income Housing (CRGFTLIH) and individual schemes under National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company Ltd. (NCGTC) which are backed by explicit Central Government Guarantee*, shall also be included here.

*Note: In terms of Reserve Bank of India (Regional Rural Banks – Prudential Norms on Capital Adequacy) Directions, 2025 , as amended from time to time

(iii)

Unsecured

All advances not classified under (i) and (ii) shall be included here.  Rights, licenses, authorisations, etc. charged to a bank as collateral should not be reckoned as tangible security and therefore such advances shall be reckoned as unsecured under this head, with a disclosure of the same in the notes to the account.

Total of ‘A’ should tally with total of ‘B’.

C. (I)

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

 

(II)

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

(v)

 

Advances in India

Priority Sectors

Public Sector

Banks

Others

Advances outside India

Due from banks

Due from others

Bills purchased and discounted

Syndicated loans

Others

 

Advances shall be classified on the sectoral basis as indicated. Advances, which qualify as priority sector lending according to extant RBI instructions are to be classified under the head ‘Priority Sectors’. Such advances shall be excluded from item (ii) i.e. advances to public sector.  Advances to Central / State Governments and other Government undertakings including Government Companies and statutory corporations shall be included in the category ‘Public Sector’.

All advances to the banking sector including Co-operative Banks shall come under the head ‘Banks’. All the remaining advances will be included under the head ‘Others’ and typically this category will include non-priority sector advances to the private, joint and co-operative sectors.

Notes - General:

1. Advances shall be reported net of provisions made thereon (other than provisions towards Standard Assets). To the extent that Floating provisions have not been treated as Tier 2 capital, they shall also be netted off from advances.

2. Term loans reported shall not include loans repayable on demand.

3. Consortium advances shall be reported net of share of other participating banks / institutions.

4. All interest-bearing loans and advances granted to bank’s own staff shall be included here. 

5. Advances to other banks / organisations shall be included here.

6.  Interest accrued but not due should not be reflected here.  Instead, it shall be shown under ‘Interest accrued’ in other assets.

7. Rights, licenses, authorisations, etc. charged to the bank as security / collateral in respect of projects (including infrastructure projects) financed by them, shall not be reckoned as tangible security. Such advances shall be reckoned as unsecured.

8. Partial credit enhancement facilities to the extent drawn shall be treated as an advance.

9. The aggregate amount of inter - bank participations with risk sharing would be reduced from the aggregate advances outstanding by issuing bank. Participating bank shall show the amount of inter-bank participations under advances.  Where the participation is without risk sharing, it shall be reflected by the participating bank as due from Banks under Schedule 9.

10. Reverse Repo with banks and other institutions having original tenors more than 14 days shall be shown under this Schedule under following head:

  1. A.(ii) ‘Cash credits, overdrafts and loans repayable on demand’’
  2. B.(i) ‘Secured by tangible assets’
  3. C.(I).(iii) Banks (iv) ‘Others’ (as the case may be)

Fixed Assets

10

(I)

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

Premises

At cost as on March 31 of the preceding year

Additions during the year

Deductions during the year

Depreciation to date

Premises, including land, wholly or partly owned by the bank for the purpose of business including residential premises shall be shown against ‘Premises’.

In the case of premises and other fixed assets, the previous balance, additions thereto and deductions therefrom during the year as also the total depreciation written off shall be shown.

(II)

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

Other Fixed Assets (including furniture and fixtures)

At cost as on March 31 of the preceding year

Additions during the year

Deductions during the year

Depreciation to date

Furniture and fixtures, vehicles and all other fixed assets shall be shown under this head.

Other Assets

11

(I)

Inter-office adjustments (net)

The inter-office adjustments balance, if in debit, shall be shown under this head. Only net position of inter-office accountsshall be shown here. For arriving at the net balance of inter-office adjustment accounts, all connected inter-office accounts shall be aggregated and the net balance, if in debit only shall be shown representing mostly items in transit and unadjusted items.

(II)

Interest accrued

Interest accrued but not due on investments and advances and interest due but not collected on investments will be the main components of this item. As banks normally debit the borrowers’ account with interest due on the balance sheet date, usually there may not be any amount of interest due on advances. Only such interest as can be realised in the ordinary course shall be shown under this head.

(III)

Tax paid in advance / tax deducted at source

The amount of advance tax paid, tax deducted at source (TDS), etc. to the extent that these items are not set off against relative tax provisions shall be shown against this item.

(IV)

Stationery and stamps

Only exceptional items of expenditure on stationery like bulk purchase of security paper, loose leaf or other ledgers, etc. which are shown as quasi-asset to be written off over a period of time shall be shown here. The value shall be on a realistic basis and cost escalation shall not be taken into account, as these items are for internal use.

(V)

Non-banking assets acquired in satisfaction of claims

Immovable properties / tangible assets acquired in satisfaction of claims are to be shown under this head.

(VI)

Others

This will include items like claims which have not been met, for instance, clearing items, debit items representing addition to assets or reduction in liabilities which have not been adjusted for technical reasons, want of particulars, etc. Accrued income other than interest shall also be included here.

All non-interest-bearing loans and advances granted to the bank’s staff shall be reported here. Cash Margin Deposit with The Clearing Corporation India Limited (CCIL) shall be shown here.

Deposits placed with NABARD / SIDBI / NHB, etc.  on account of shortfall in priority sector targets shall be included here. Banks shall also disclose the details of such deposits, both for the current year and previous year, as a footnote in Schedule 11 of the Balance Sheet.

Where any item under ‘Others’ exceeds one percent of the total assets, particulars of all such items shall be disclosed in the notes to accounts.

Contingent Liabilities

12

(I)

Claims against the bank not acknowledged as debts

--

(II)

Liability for partly paid investments

Liability on partly paid shares, debentures, etc. will be included in this head.

(III)

Liability on account of outstanding forward exchange contracts

Outstanding forward exchange contracts shall be included here.

(IV)

(i)

(ii)

Guarantees given on behalf of constituents

In India

Outside India

-

(V)

Acceptances, endorsements and other obligations

This item will include letters of credit and bills accepted by the bank on behalf of its customers.

(VI)

Other items for which the bank is contingently liable

Arrears of cumulative dividends, bills rediscounted, commitments of underwriting contracts, estimated amount of contracts remaining to be executed on capital account and not provided for etc. are to be included here.

All unclaimed liabilities (where amount due has been transferred to the Depositors Education and Awareness Fund established under the Depositor Education and Awareness Fund Scheme 2014) shall be shown here.

The undrawn partial credit enhancement facilities shall be shown here.

When Issued (‘WI’) securities should be recorded in books as an off balance sheet item till issue of the security. The off balance sheet net position in the ‘WI’ market should be marked to market scrip-wise on daily basis at the day’s closing price of the ‘WI’ security. In case the price of the ‘WI’ security is not available, the value of the underlying security determined as per extant regulations may be used instead. Depreciation, if any, should be provided for and appreciation, if any, should be ignored. On delivery, the underlying security may be classified in any of the three categories, viz; ‘Held to Maturity’, ‘Available for Sale’ or ‘Held for Trading’, depending upon the intent of holding, at the contracted price.

Bills for collection

--

 

--

Bills and other items in the course of collection and not adjusted will be shown against this item in the summary version only. No separate schedule is proposed.

(2) Instructions for compilation of profit and loss account

Item

Sch

 

Coverage

Notes and Instructions for compilation

Interest earned

13

(I)

Interest / discount on advances / bills

Includes interest and discount on all types of loans and advances like cash credit, demand loans, overdrafts, export loans, term loans, domestic and foreign bills purchased and discounted (including those rediscounted), overdue interest and interest subsidy, if any, relating to such advances / bills.

(II)

Income on investments

Includes all income derived from the investment portfolio by way of interest and dividend. The amount of premium amortised in respect of HTM Securities shall be shown here as a deduction. The deduction need not be disclosed separately. The book value of the security shall continue to be reduced to the extent of the amount amortised during the relevant accounting period.

(III)

Interest on balances with RBI and other Inter-bank funds

Includes interest on balances with RBI and other banks, call loans, money market placements, etc.

(IV)

Others

Includes any other interest / discount income not included in the above heads.

 

 

Notes: General

The balances in Reverse Repo Interest Income Account shall be classified under Schedule 13 (under item III or IV as appropriate).

Other Income

14

(I)

Commission, Exchange and Brokerage

Includes all remuneration on services such as commission on collections, commission / exchange on remittances and transfers, commission on letters of credit and bank guarantees, letting out of lockers, commission on Government business, commission on other permitted agency business including consultancy and other services, brokerage, etc. on securities. It does not include foreign exchange income.

(II)

 

(III)

 

 

(IV)

Profit on sale of investments Less: Loss on sale of investments

Profit on revaluation of investments

Less: Loss on revaluation of investments

Profit on sale of land, buildings and other assets                  Less: Loss on sale of land, buildings and other assets

Includes profit / loss on sale of securities, furniture, land and building, motor vehicles, gold, silver, etc. Only the net position shall be shown. If the net position is a loss, the amount shall be shown as a deduction. The net profit / loss on revaluation of assets as well as provision for depreciation (or reversal of excess depreciation) shall also be shown under this item. Provision for non-performing investments (NPI) shall not be shown here and instead reflected under Provisions and Contingencies.

(V)

Profit on exchange transactions

Less: Loss on exchange transactions

Includes profit / loss on dealing in foreign exchange, all income earned by way of foreign exchange, commission and charges on foreign exchange transactions excluding interest which will be shown under interest head. Only the net position shall be shown. If the net position is a loss, it is to be shown as a deduction.

(VI)

Income earned by way of dividend etc. from subsidiaries, companies, joint ventures abroad / in India

 

(VII)

Miscellaneous income

Includes recoveries from constituents for godown rents, income from bank’s properties, security charges, insurance etc. and any other miscellaneous income. In case any item under this head exceeds one percent of the total income, particulars shall be given in the notes. The fee received from the sale of Priority Sector Lending Certificates (PSLCs) shall be shown here.

Interest expended

15

(I)

Interest on deposits

Includes interest paid on all types of deposits including deposits from banks and other institutions.

(II)

Interest on RBI / inter-bank borrowings

Includes discount / interest on all borrowings and refinance from RBI and other banks.

(III)

Others

Includes discount / interest on all borrowings / refinance from financial institutions. All other payments like interest on participation certificates, penal interest paid, etc. shall also be included here.

 

 

Notes :General

1. The balances in Repo Interest Expenditure Account shall be classified under Schedule 15 (under item II or III as appropriate).

2. While acquiring government and other approved securities, banks should not capitalise the broken period interest paid to seller as part of cost of the investment, but instead book it as an expense.

Operating Expenses

16

(I)

Payments to and provisions for employees

Includes staff salaries / wages, allowances, bonus, other staff benefits like provident fund, pension, gratuity, liveries to staff, leave fare concessions, staff welfare, medical allowance to staff, etc.

(II)

Rent, taxes and lighting

Includes rent paid by the banks on buildings, municipal and other taxes paid (excluding income tax and interest tax), electricity and other similar charges and levies. House rent allowance and other similar payments to staff shall appear under the head ‘Payments to and provisions for employees’.

(III)

Printing and stationery

Includes books and forms and stationery items used by the bank and other printing charges which are not incurred by way of publicity expenditure.

(IV)

Advertisement and publicity

Includes expenditure incurred by the bank for advertisement and publicity purposes including printing charges of publicity material.

(V)

Depreciation on bank’s property

Includes depreciation on bank’s own property, cars and other vehicles, furniture, electric fittings, vaults, lifts, leasehold properties, non-banking assets, etc.

(VI)

Directors’ fees, allowances and expenses

Includes sitting fees, allowances and all other expenses incurred on behalf of directors. The daily allowance, hotel charges, conveyance charges, etc. which though in the nature of reimbursement of expenses incurred shall be included under this head. Similar expenses of Local Board members, committees of the Board, etc. shall also be included under this head.

(VII)

Auditors’ fees and expenses (including branch auditors’ fees)

Includes the fees paid to the statutory auditors and branch auditors for professional services rendered and all expenses for performing their duties, even though they may be in the nature of reimbursement of expenses. If external auditors have been appointed by banks themselves for internal inspections and audits and other services, the expenses incurred in that context including fees should not be included under this head but shall be shown under ‘other expenditure’.

(VIII)

Law charges

All legal expenses and reimbursement of expenses incurred in connection with legal services shall be included here.

(IX)

Postage, Telegrams, Telephones, etc.

Includes all postal charges like stamps, telephones, etc.

(X)

Repairs and maintenance

Includes repairs to bank’s property, their maintenance charges, etc.

(XI)

Insurance

Includes insurance charges on bank’s property, insurance premia paid to DICGC, etc. to the extent they are not recovered from the concerned parties.

(XII)

Other expenditure

All expenses other than those not included in any of the other heads like licence fees, donations, subscriptions to papers, periodicals, entertainment expenses, travel expenses, etc. shall be included under this head. In case any particular item under this head exceeds one percent of the total income, particulars shall be given in the notes. The fees paid for the purchase of the PSLCs shall be shown here.

Provisions and Contingencies

     

Includes all provisions made for bad and doubtful debts, provisions for taxation, provisions for non-performing investments, transfers to contingencies and other similar items.

C. Guidance on specific issues with respect to certain Accounting Standards

6. A bank shall also be guided by following with respect to relevant issues in the application of certain Accounting Standards for the bank.

(1)Accounting Standard 5 - Net Profit or Loss for the Period, Prior Period Items and Changes in Accounting Policies

(i) The objective of this standard is to prescribe the classification and disclosure of certain items in the statement of profit and loss so that all enterprises prepare and present such a statement on a uniform basis.

(ii) Accordingly, this Standard requires the classification and disclosure of extraordinary and prior period items, and the disclosure of certain items within profit or loss from ordinary activities. It also specifies the accounting treatment for changes in accounting estimates and the disclosures to be made in the financial statements regarding changes in accounting policies.

(iii) Paragraph 4.3 of Preface to the Statements on Accounting Standards issued by the ICAI states that Accounting Standards are intended to apply only to items which are material. Since materiality is not objectively defined, it has been decided that all banks should ensure compliance with the provisions of the Accounting Standard in respect of any item of prior period income or prior period expenditure which exceeds one percent of the total income / total expenditure of the bank if the income / expenditure is reckoned on a gross basis or one percent of the net profit before taxes or net losses as the case may be if the income is reckoned net of costs. 

(iv) Since the format of the profit and loss accounts of a bank prescribed in Form B under Third Schedule to the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 does not specifically provide for disclosure of the impact of prior period items on the current year’s profit and loss, such disclosures, wherever warranted, may be made in the ‘Notes on Accounts’ to the balance sheet of a bank.

(2) Accounting Standard 9 – Revenue Recognition

(i) Non-recognition of income by the bank in case of non-performing advances and non-performing investments, in compliance with the regulatory prescriptions of the RBI, shall not attract a qualification by the statutory auditors as this would be in conformity with provisions of the standard, as it recognises postponement of recognition of revenue where collectability of the revenue is significantly uncertain.

(3) Accounting Standard 11 - The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates

AS 11 is applied in the context of the accounting for transactions in foreign currencies.

(i) Exchange rate for recording foreign currency transactions

(a) As per paragraphs 9 and 21 of the Standard, a foreign currency transaction shall be recorded on initial recognition in the reporting currency, by applying to the foreign currency amount the exchange rate between the reporting currency and the foreign currency at the date of the transaction. A bank may face difficulty in applying the exchange rate prevailing at the date of the transaction in respect of the items which are not being recorded in Indian Rupees or are currently being recorded using a notional exchange rate.

(b) A bank, which is in a position to apply the exchange rate prevailing on the date of the transaction for recording the foreign currency transactions as required under AS 11 shall comply with the requirements. A bank, which has an extensive branch network, have a high volume of foreign currency transactions and is not fully equipped on the technology front shall be guided by the following:

(i) Paragraph 10 of the Standard allows, for practical reasons, the use of a rate that approximates the actual rate at the date of the transaction The Standard also states that if exchange rates fluctuate significantly, the use of average rate for a period is unreliable. Since the enterprises are required to record the transactions at the date of the occurrence thereof, the weekly average closing rate of the preceding week can be used for recording the transactions occurring in the relevant week, if the same approximates the actual rate at the date of the transaction. In view of the practical difficulties which a bank may have in applying the exchange rates at the dates of the transactions and since the Standard allows the use of a rate that approximates the actual rate at the date of the transaction, the bank may use average rates as detailed below:

(ii) FEDAI publishes a weekly average closing rate at the end of each week and a quarterly average closing rate at the end of each quarter for various currencies.

(iii) In respect of those foreign currency transactions, which are currently not being recorded in Indian Rupees at the date of the transaction or are being recorded using a notional exchange rate shall now be recorded at the date of the transaction by using the weekly average closing rate of the preceding week, published by FEDAI, if the same approximates the actual rate at the date of the transaction.

(iv) If the weekly average closing rate of the preceding week does not approximate the actual rate at the date of the transaction, the closing rate at the date of the transaction shall be used. For this purpose, the weekly average closing rate of the preceding week would not be considered approximating the actual rate at the date of the transaction if the difference between (A) the weekly average closing rate of the preceding week and (B) the exchange rate prevailing at the date of the transaction, is more than three and a half percent of (B).

(v) A bank is encouraged to equip itself to record the foreign currency transactions at the exchange rate prevailing on the date of the transaction.

(ii) Closing rate

(a) Paragraph 7 of the Standard defines ‘Closing rate’ as the exchange rate at the balance sheet date.

(b) In order to ensure uniformity among banks, closing rate to be applied for the purposes of AS 11 (revised 2003) for the relevant accounting period shall be the last closing spot rate of exchange announced by FEDAI for that accounting period.

(4) Accounting Standard 17 – Segment Reporting

The indicative formats for disclosure under ‘AS 17 – Segment Reporting’ are as below.

 

Format

Part A: Business segments

 

(Amount in ₹ crore)

 

Business Segments g

Treasury

Corporate / Wholesale Banking

Retail Banking

Other Banking Business

Total

Particulars i

Current Year

Previous Year

Current Year

Previous Year

Current Year

Previous Year

Current Year

Previous Year

Current Year

Previous Year

Revenue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Result

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unallocated expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating profit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income taxes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extraordinary profit / loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net profit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other information:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Segment assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unallocated assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Segment liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unallocated liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note (1): No disclosure need be made in the shaded portion

Notes (2):

a) The business segments will be ‘Treasury’, ‘Corporate / Wholesale Banking’, ‘Retail Banking’ and ‘Other banking operations’.

b) A bank shall adopt its own methods, on a reasonable and consistent basis, for allocation of expenditure among the segments.

c) ‘Treasury’ shall include the entire investment portfolio.

d) Retail Banking shall include exposures which fulfil the four criteria of orientation, product, granularity, and low value of individual exposures for retail exposures laid down in Reserve Bank of India (Regional Rural Banks – Prudential Norms on Capital Adequacy) Directions, 2025 . Individual housing loans will also form part of Retail Banking segment for the purpose of reporting under AS-17.

e) Corporate / Wholesale Banking includes all advances to trusts, partnership firms, companies, and statutory bodies, which are not included under ‘Retail Banking’.

f) Other Banking Business includes all other banking operations not covered under ‘Treasury, 'Wholesale Banking' and 'Retail Banking' segments. It shall also include all other residual operations such as para banking transactions / activities.

g) Besides the above-mentioned segments, a bank shall report additional segments within ‘Other Banking Business’ which meet the quantitative criterion prescribed in the AS 17 for identifying reportable segments.

(5) Accounting Standard 18 – Related Party Disclosure

The manner of disclosures required by paragraphs 23 to 26 of AS 18 is illustrated as below. It may be noted that the format given below is merely illustrative in nature and is not exhaustive.

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Items / Related Party

Parent

(as per ownership or control)

Subsidiaries

Associates /

Joint ventures

Key

Management

Personnel

Relatives of Key Management Personnel

Total

Borrowings#

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deposits#

 

 

 

 

 

 

Placement of deposits#

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advances#

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investments#

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-funded commitments#

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leasing / HP arrangements availed#

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leasing / HP arrangements provided#

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchase of fixed assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sale of fixed assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest paid

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest received

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rendering of services*

 

 

 

 

 

 

Receiving of services*

 

 

 

 

 

 

Management contracts*

 

 

 

 

 

 

#The outstanding at the year end and the maximum during the year are to be disclosed

*Contract services etc. and not services like remittance facilities, locker facilities etc.

 

Notes:

i) Related parties for a bank are its parent, subsidiary(ies), associates / joint ventures, Key Management Personnel (KMP) and relatives of KMP. KMP are the whole-time directors for an Indian bank. Relatives of KMP would be on the lines indicated in section 45 S of the RBI Act, 1934

ii) The name and nature of related party relationship shall be disclosed, irrespective of whether there have been transactions, where control exists within the meaning of the Standard. Control would normally exist in case of parent-subsidiary relationship. The disclosures may be limited to aggregate for each of the above related party categories and would pertain to the year-end position as also the maximum position during the year.

iii) Secrecy provisions: If in any of the above category of related parties there is only one related party entity, any disclosure would tantamount to infringement of customer confidentiality. In terms of AS 18, the disclosure requirements do not apply in circumstances when providing such disclosures would conflict with the reporting enterprise’s duties of confidentiality as specifically required in terms of statute, by regulator or similar competent authority. Further, in case a statute or regulator governing an enterprise prohibits the enterprise from disclosing certain information, which is required to be disclosed, non-disclosure of such information would not be deemed as non-compliance with the Accounting Standards. On account of the judicially recognised common law duty of the bank to maintain the confidentiality of the customer details, it need not make such disclosures. In view of the above, where the disclosures under the Accounting Standards are not aggregated disclosures in respect of any category of related party i.e., where there is only one entity in any category of related party, a bank need not disclose any details pertaining to that related party other than the relationship with that related party.

(6) Accounting Standard 24 - Discontinuing operations

(i) This Standard establishes principles for reporting information about discontinuing operations.

(ii) Merger / closure of branches of a bank by transferring the assets / liabilities to the other branches of the same bank may not be deemed as a discontinuing operation and hence this Accounting Standard will not be applicable to merger / closure of branches of a bank by transferring the assets / liabilities to the other branches of the same bank.

(iii) Disclosures shall be required under the Standard only when: (a) discontinuing of the operation has resulted in shedding of liability and realisation of the assets by the bank or decision to discontinue an operation which will have the above effect has been finalised by the bank and (b) the discontinued operation is substantial in its entirety.

(7) Accounting Standard 25 – Interim Financial Reporting

(i) This Standard prescribes the minimum content of an interim financial report and the principles for recognition and measurement in a complete or condensed financial statements for an interim period.

(ii) The disclosures required to be made by a listed bank in terms of the listing agreements would not tantamount to interim reporting as envisaged under AS 25 and as such AS 25 is not mandatory for the quarterly reporting prescribed for a listed bank.

(iii) The recognition and measurement principles laid down under AS 25 shall however, be complied with in respect of such quarterly reports.

(8) Accounting Standard 26 – Intangible asset

(i) This Standard prescribes the accounting treatment for intangible assets that are not dealt with specifically in another accounting standard.

(ii) With respect to computer software which has been customised for the bank’s use and is expected to be in use for some time, the detailed recognition and amortisation principle in respect of computer software prescribed in the Standard adequately addresses these issues and may be followed by the bank.

(iii) It may be noted that intangible assets recognised and carried in the balance sheet of a bank in compliance with AS 26 shall attract provisions of section 15(1) of the Banking Regulation Act 1949, in terms of which a bank is prohibited from declaring any dividend until any expenditure not represented by tangible assets is carried in the balance sheet.

(iv) A bank desirous of paying dividend while carrying any intangible assets in its books must seek exemption from Section 15(1) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 from the Central Government.

(9) Accounting Standard 28 – Impairment of assets

(i) This standard prescribes the procedures that an enterprise applies to ensure that its assets are carried at no more than their recoverable amount.

(ii) It is clarified that the standard shall not apply to inventories, investments and other financial assets such as loans and advances and shall generally be applicable to a bank in so far as it relates to fixed assets.

(iii) The Standard shall generally apply to financial lease assets and non-banking assets acquired in settlement of claims only when the indications of impairment of the entity are evident.

Chapter III - Disclosure in Financial Statements – Notes to Accounts

7. A bank shall disclose information as specified in this chapter in the notes to accounts of the financial statements.

Explanation 1: These disclosures are intended only to supplement and not to replace disclosure requirements under other laws, regulations, or accounting and financial reporting standards.

Explanation 2: A bank is encouraged to make disclosures that are more comprehensive than the minimum required under these Directions, especially if such disclosures significantly aid in the understanding of the financial position and performance.

A. General

8. The items listed in these Directions shall be disclosed in the ‘Notes to Accounts’ to the financial statements. A bank shall make additional disclosures where material.

B. Presentation

9. In addition to the schedules to the balance sheet, a summary of ‘significant accounting policies’ and ‘Notes to Accounts’ shall be disclosed as separate Schedules.

C. Disclosure requirements

10. A bank shall, at the minimum, furnish the following information in the ‘Notes to Accounts’. The bank shall note that mere mention of an activity, transaction or item in the disclosure template does not imply that it is permitted, and the bank shall refer to the extant statutory and regulatory requirements while determining the permissibility or otherwise of an activity or transaction. The bank shall disclose comparative information in respect of the previous period for all amounts reported in the current period’s financial statements. Further, the bank shall include comparative information for narrative and descriptive information if it is relevant to understanding the current period’s financial statements.

(1) Regulatory capital

(i) Composition of regulatory capital

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Sr. No.

Particulars

Current Year

Previous Year

i)    

Tier 1 capital

 

 

ii)    

Tier 2 capital

 

 

iii)   

Total capital (Tier 1+Tier 2) (i+ii)

 

 

iv)   

Total Risk Weighted Assets (RWAs)

 

 

v)   

Tier 1 Ratio (Tier 1 capital as a percentage of RWAs)

 

 

vi)   

Tier 2 Ratio (Tier 2 capital as a percentage of RWAs)

 

 

vii)

Capital to Risk Weighted Assets Ratio (CRAR) (Total Capital as a percentage of RWAs)

 

 

viii)  

Percentage of the shareholding of

a) Government of India

b) State Government (specify name)

c) Sponsor Bank (specify name)

 

 

ix) 

Amount of paid-up equity capital raised during the year  

 

 

x)     

Amount of perpetual debt instruments raised during the year

 

 

(ii) Draw down from Reserves: Suitable disclosures mentioning the amount and the rationale for withdrawal shall be made regarding any draw down from reserves.

(2) Asset liability management

(i) Maturity pattern of certain items of assets and liabilities

(Amount in ₹ crore)

 

Day 1

2 to

7 days

8 to

14 days

15 to

30 days

31 days to

2 months

Over 2 months and to 3 months

Over 3 months

and up to 6 Months

Over 6 months

and up to 1 year

Over 1 year and

up to 3 years

Over 3 years and up to 5 years

Over 5

years

Total

Deposits*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advances

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Borrowings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign Currency assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign Currency liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(3) Investments

As at ….(previous year balance sheet date)

(Amount in ₹ crore)

 

Investments in India

Investments outside India

Total Investments

Government Securities

Other Approved Securities

Shares

Debentures and Bonds

 

Others

Total investments in India

Government securities (including local authorities)

 

Others

Total Investments outside India

Held to Maturity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Less: Provision for non-performing investments (NPI)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Available for Sale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Less: Provision for depreciation and NPI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Held for Trading

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Less: Provision for depreciation and NPI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Investments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Less: Provision for non-performing investments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Less: Provision for depreciation and NPI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(i) Movement of provisions for depreciation on investments, non-performing investments (NPIs) and investment fluctuation reserve (IFR)

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Particulars

Current Year

Previous Year

i) Movement of provisions held towards depreciation of investment and NPIs

  1. Opening balance
  2. Add: Provisions made during the year
  3. Less: Write off / write back of excess provisions during the year
  4. Closing balance

ii) Movement of Investment Fluctuation Reserve

  1. Opening balance
  2. Add: Amount transferred during the year
  3. Less: Drawdown
  4. Closing balance

iii) Closing balance in IFR as a percentage of closing balance of investments [Carrying value less net depreciation (ignoring net appreciation) i.e., the net amount reflected in the balance sheet] in AFS and HFT .

 

 

(ii) Sale and transfers to / from HTM category: In case of transfers of securities to / from HTM category, an RRB shall make disclosure in the ‘Notes to Accounts’ to the Financial Statements.

(iii)Non-SLR investment portfolio

(a) Non-performing non-SLR investments

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Sr.No.

Particulars

Current Year

Previous Year

a)

Opening balance

 

 

b)

Additions during the year since 1st April

 

 

c)

Reductions during the above period

 

 

d)

Closing balance

 

 

e)

Total provisions held

 

 

(b) Issuer composition of non-SLR investments

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Sr.No.

Issuer

Amount

Extent of Private Placement

Extent of ‘Below Investment Grade’

Securities

Extent of ‘Unrated’

Securities

Extent of ‘Unlisted’

Securities

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

 

 

Current year

Previous Year

Current year

Previous Year

Current year

Previous Year

Current year

Previous Year

Current year

Previous Year

a)

PSUs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

b)

FIs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c)

Banks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

d)

Private Corporates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

e)

Subsidiaries /  Joint Ventures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

f)

Others

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

g)

Provision held towards depreciation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total *

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes:

1. For a bank, the Total under column 3 shall match with the sum of total of Investments included under the following categories in Schedule 8 to the balance sheet:

a) Investment in India in

i) Shares

ii) Debentures and Bonds

iii) Subsidiaries and / or Joint Ventures

iv) Others

b) Investment outside India in (where applicable)

i) Government securities (including local authorities)

ii) Subsidiaries and / or joint ventures abroad

iii) Other investments

2. Amounts reported under columns 4, 5, 6 and 7 above may not be mutually exclusive.

(iv) Repo transactions (in face value and market value terms)

(Amount in ₹ crore)

 

Minimum outstanding during the year

Maximum outstanding during the year

Daily average outstanding during the year

Outstanding as on March 31

 

FV

MV

FV

MV

FV

MV

FV

MV

i) Securities sold under repo

  1. Government securities
  2. Corporate debt securities
  3. Any other securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ii) Securities purchased under reverse repo

  1. Government securities
  2. Corporate debt securities
  3. Any other securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note:

(i) ‘FV’ means Face Value and ‘MV’ means Market Value.

ii) The disclosure shall be as specified in Repurchase Transactions (Repo) (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2018 as amended from time to time. For ease of reference the disclosure template as on the date of issuance of this Master Direction has been reproduced here.

(v) Government Security Lending (GSL) transactions (in market value terms)

As at … (current year balance sheet date)

(Amount in ₹ crore)

 

Minimum outstanding during the year

Maximum outstanding during the year

Daily average outstanding during the year

Total volume of transactions during the year

Outstanding as on March 31

Securities lent through GSL transactions

 

 

 

 

 

Securities borrowed through GSL transactions

 

 

 

 

 

Securities placed as collateral under GSL transactions

 

 

 

 

 

Securities received as collateral under GSL Transactions

 

 

 

 

 

As at … (previous year balance sheet date)

(Amount in ₹ crore)

 

Minimum outstanding during the year

Maximum outstanding during the year

Daily average outstanding during the year

Total volume of transactions during the year

Outstanding as on March 31

Securities lent through GSL transactions

 

 

 

 

 

Securities borrowed through GSL transactions

 

 

 

 

 

Securities placed as collateral under GSL Transactions

 

 

 

 

 

Securities received as collateral under GSL Transactions

 

 

 

 

 

Note:

The disclosure shall be as specified in Reserve Bank of India (Government Securities Lending) Directions, 2023, as amended from time to time. For ease of reference the disclosure template as on the date of issuance of this Direction has been reproduced here.

(4) Asset quality

(i) Classification of advances and provisions held

 

Standard

Non-Performing

Total

 

Total Standard Advances

Sub-standard

Doubtful

Loss

Total Non-Performing Advances

 

Gross Standard Advances and NPAs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opening Balance

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add: Additions during the year

 

 

 

 

 

 

Less: Reductions during the year*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Reductions in Gross NPAs due to:

 

 

 

 

 

 

i) Upgradation

 

 

 

 

 

 

ii) Recoveries (excluding recoveries from upgraded accounts)

 

 

 

 

 

 

iii) Technical / Prudential Write-offs

 

 

 

 

 

 

iv) Write-offs other than those under (iii) above

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Provisions (excluding Floating Provisions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opening balance of provisions held

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add: Fresh provisions made during the year

 

 

 

 

 

 

Less: Excess provision reversed / Write-off loans

 

 

 

 

 

 

Closing balance of provisions held

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net NPAs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opening Balance

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add: Fresh additions during the year

 

 

 

 

 

 

Less: Reductions during the year

 

 

 

 

 

 

Closing Balance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Floating Provisions

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opening Balance

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add: Additional provisions made during the year

 

 

 

 

 

 

Less: Amount drawn down during the year

(Rationale for drawdown may be explained by way of a note below the table)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Closing balance of floating provisions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Technical write-offs and the recoveries made thereon

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opening balance of Technical / Prudential written-off accounts

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add: Technical / Prudential write-offs during the year

 

 

 

 

 

 

Less: Recoveries made from previously technical / prudential written-off accounts during the year

 

 

 

 

 

 

Closing balance

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note –

1) While making disclosures in audited annual financial statements, a bank should invariably provide the figures for both the current and previous year to facilitate comparison.

2) Technical or prudential write-off is the amount of non-performing loans which are outstanding in the books of the branches but have been written-off (fully or partially) at Head Office level. Amount of Technical write-off should be certified by statutory auditors.

3) To the extent that floating provisions have not been reckoned for Tier 2 capital, they may be netted off from Gross NPAs to arrive at Net NPAs.

 

 

Ratios

(in percent)

(to be computed as per applicable regulatory instructions)

Current

Year

Previous

Year

Gross NPA to Gross Advances

 

 

Net NPA to Net Advances

 

 

Provision coverage ratio

 

 

(ii) Sector-wise advances and Gross NPAs

(Amounts in ₹ crore)

Sr. No.

Sector*

Current Year

Previous Year

Outstanding Total Advances

Gross NPAs

Percentage of Gross NPAs to Total Advances in that sector

Outstanding Total Advances

Gross NPAs

Percentage of Gross NPAs to Total Advances in that sector

i)

Priority Sector

 

 

 

 

 

 

a)

Agriculture and allied activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

b)

Advances to industries sector eligible as priority sector lending

 

 

 

 

 

 

c)

Services

 

 

 

 

 

 

d)

Personal loans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subtotal (i)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ii)

Non-priority Sector

 

 

 

 

 

 

a)

Agriculture and allied activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

b)

Industry

 

 

 

 

 

 

c)

Services

 

 

 

 

 

 

d)

Personal loans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sub-total (ii)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total (I + ii)

 

 

 

 

 

 

*A bank shall also disclose in the format above, sub-sectors where the outstanding advances exceeds 10 percent of the outstanding

total advances to that sector.  For instance, if a bank’s outstanding advances to the mining industry exceed 10 percent of the outstanding total advances to ‘Industry’ sector it shall disclose details of its outstanding advances to mining separately in the format above under

the ‘Industry’ sector.

(iii) Details of accounts subjected to restructuring (as defined as per applicable regulations)

   

Agriculture and allied activities

Corporates (excluding MSME)

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)

Retail (excluding agriculture and MSME)

Total

   

Current Year

Previous Year

Current Year

Previous Year

Current Year

Previous Year

Current Year

Previous Year

Current Year

Previous Year

Standard

Number of borrowers

                   

Gross Amount (₹ crore)

                   

Provision held (₹ crore)

                   

Sub-standard

Number of borrowers

                   

Gross Amount (₹ crore)

                   

Provision held (₹ crore)

                   

Doubtful

Number of borrowers

                   

Gross Amount (₹ crore)

                   

Provision held (₹ crore)

                   

Total

Number of borrowers

                   

Gross Amount (₹ crore)

                   

Provision held (₹ crore)

                   

A bank shall disclose in its published Annual Balance Sheets the amount and number of accounts in respect of which applications for restructuring are under process, but the restructuring packages have not yet been approved.

(iv) Disclosure of transfer of loan exposure

A lender shall make appropriate disclosures in its financial statements, under ‘Notes to Accounts’, relating to the total amount of loans not in default / stressed loans transferred and acquired to / from other entities as prescribed below, on a quarterly basis:

 

(a) In respect of loans not in default that are transferred or acquired, the disclosures should cover, inter alia, aspects such as weighted average maturity, weighted average holding period, retention of beneficial economic interest, coverage of tangible security coverage, and rating-wise distribution of rated loans. Specifically, a transferor should disclose all instances where it has agreed to replace loans transferred to transferee(s) or pay damages arising out of any representation or warranty. The disclosures should also provide break-up of loans transferred / acquired through assignment / novation and loan participation.

(b) In the case of stressed loans transferred or acquired, the following disclosures should be made:

Details of stressed loans transferred during the year (to be made separately for loans classified as NPA and SMA)

(all amounts in ₹ crore)

To ARCs

To permitted transferees

To other transferees (please specify)

No: of accounts

 

 

 

Aggregate principal outstanding of loans transferred

 

 

 

Weighted average residual tenor of the loans transferred

 

 

 

Net book value of loans transferred (at the time of transfer)

 

 

 

Aggregate consideration

 

 

 

Additional consideration realised in respect of accounts transferred in earlier years

 

 

 

Details of loans acquired during the year

(all amounts in ₹ crore)

From SCBs, RRBs, Co-operative Banks, AIFIs, SFBs and NBFCs including Housing Finance Companies (HFCs)

From ARCs

Aggregate principal outstanding of loans acquired

 

 

Aggregate consideration paid

 

 

Weighted average residual tenor of loans acquired

 

 

(c) The transferor(s) should also make appropriate disclosures with regard to the quantum of excess provisions reversed to the profit and loss account on account of sale of stressed loans. Also, the lender should disclose the distribution of the SRs held by it across the various categories of Recovery Ratings assigned to such SRs by the credit rating agencies.

 

(v) Fraud accounts: A bank shall make disclose details on the number and amount of frauds as well as the provisioning thereon as per template given below.

 

Current year

Previous year

Number of frauds reported

 

 

Amount involved in fraud (₹ crore)

 

 

Amount of provision made for such frauds (₹ crore)

 

 

Amount of unamortised provision debited from ‘other reserves’ as at the end of the year (₹ crore)

 

 

(vi) Disclosure under resolution framework for COVID-19-related Stress

(a) A special window under the Prudential Framework was extended to enable the lenders to implement a resolution plan in respect of eligible corporate exposures, and personal loans, while classifying such exposures as Standard. 

(b) A bank shall make disclosures in the format prescribed below every half-year, i.e., in the financial statements as on September 30 and March 31, starting from the half-year ending September 30, 2021 till all exposures on which resolution plan was implemented are either fully extinguished or completely slip into NPA, whichever is earlier.

Format for disclosures to be made half yearly starting September 30, 2021

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Type of borrower

Exposure to accounts classified as Standard consequent to implementation of resolution plan– Position as at the end of the previous half-year (A)

Of (A), aggregate debt that slipped into NPA during the half-year

Of (A) amount written off during the half-year

Of (A) amount paid by the borrowers during the half- year

Exposure to accounts classified as Standard consequent to implementation of resolution plan – Position as at the

end of this half-year

Personal Loans

 

 

 

 

 

Corporate persons*

 

 

 

 

 

Of which MSMEs

 

 

 

 

 

Others

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

 

 

 

 

* As defined in section 3(7) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016

Note: A bank that is not required by the listing requirements or otherwise to publish quarterly / half-yearly statements, shall make the disclosures for the full year in the annual financial statements.

(5) Exposures

(i) Exposure to real estate sector

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Category

Current Year

Previous Year

i)  Direct exposure 

a) Residential Mortgages

Lending fully secured by mortgages on residential property that is or will be occupied by the borrower or that is rented. Individual housing loans eligible for inclusion in priority sector advances shall be shown separately. Exposure would also include non-fund based (NFB) limits.

b) Commercial Real Estate

Lending secured by mortgages on commercial real estate (office buildings, retail space, multipurpose commercial premises, multifamily residential buildings, multi tenanted commercial premises, industrial or warehouse space, hotels, land acquisition, development and construction, etc.). Exposure would also include non-fund based (NFB) limits.

c) Investments in Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) and other securitised exposures

i. Residential 

ii. Commercial Real Estate

ii) Indirect Exposure

Fund based and non-fund-based exposures on National Housing Bank and Housing Finance Companies.             

 

 

Total Exposure to Real Estate Sector

 

 

(ii) Exposure to capital market

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Particulars

Current Year

Previous Year

(i) Direct investment in equity shares, convertible bonds, convertible debentures and units of equity oriented mutual funds the corpus of which is not exclusively invested in corporate debt;

 

 

(ii) Advances against shares / bonds / debentures or other securities or on clean basis to individuals for investment in shares (including IPOs / ESOPs), convertible bonds, convertible debentures, and units of equity oriented mutual funds;

 

 

(iii) Advances for any other purposes where shares or convertible bonds or convertible debentures or units of equity oriented mutual funds are taken as primary security;

 

 

(iv) Advances for any other purposes to the extent secured by the collateral security of shares or convertible bonds or convertible debentures or units of equity oriented mutual funds i.e. where the primary security other than shares / convertible bonds / convertible debentures / units of equity oriented mutual funds does not fully cover the advances;

 

 

(v) Secured and unsecured advances to stockbrokers and guarantees issued on behalf of stockbrokers and market makers;

 

 

(vi) Loans sanctioned to corporates against the security of shares / bonds / debentures or other securities or on clean basis for meeting promoter’s contribution to the equity of new companies in anticipation of raising resources;

 

 

(vii) Bridge loans to companies against expected equity flows / issues;

 

 

(viii) Underwriting commitments taken up by the banks in respect of primary issue of shares or convertible bonds or convertible debentures or units of equity oriented mutual funds;

 

 

(ix) Financing to stockbrokers for margin trading;

 

 

(x) All exposures to Venture Capital Funds (both registered and unregistered)

 

 

Total exposure to capital market

 

 

A bank may omit those line items which are not applicable / permitted or have nil exposure both in current and previous year.

(iii) Risk category-wise country exposure

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Risk Category*

Exposure (net) as at March…

(Current Year)

Provision held as at March…

(Current Year)

Exposure (net) as at March… 

(Previous Year)

Provision held as at March…

(Previous Year)

Insignificant

 

 

 

 

Low

 

 

 

 

Moderately Low

 

 

 

 

Moderate

 

 

 

 

Moderately High

 

 

 

 

High

 

 

 

 

Very High

 

 

 

 

Total

 

 

 

 

*Till a bank moves over to internal rating systems, it shall use the seven-category classification followed by Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Ltd. (ECGC) for the purpose of classification and making provisions for country risk exposures. ECGC shall provide to a bank, on request, quarterly updates of their country classifications and shall also inform banks in case of any sudden major changes in country classification in the interim period.

Note: If a bank has no exposure to country risk in both the current and previous year, it may omit disclosure of the table while mentioning that it has no exposure to country risk.

(iv) Unsecured advances

A bank shall disclose the total amount of advances for which intangible securities such as charge over the rights, licenses, authority, etc. have been taken as also the estimated value of such intangible collateral as per the following format.

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Particulars

Current Year

Previous Year

Total unsecured advances of the bank

 

 

Out of the above, amount of advances for which intangible securities such as charge over the rights, licenses, authority, etc. have been taken

 

 

Estimated value of such intangible securities

 

 

(v) Factoring exposures: Factoring exposures shall be separately disclosed.

(vi) Unhedged foreign currency exposure: A bank shall disclose its policies to manage currency induced credit risk.  

(vii) Loans against gold and silver collateral

(a) Details of loans extended against eligible gold and silver collateral

Particulars

Loan outstanding

Average ticket size

( crore)

Average LTV ratio

Gross NPA

(%)

crore

As % of Total Loans

 

 

 

 

 

 

(a) Consumption loans

 

 

 

 

 

 

of which bullet repayment loans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. New loans sanctioned and disbursed during the FY [(c)+(d)]

 

 

 

 

NA

(c) Consumption loans

 

 

 

 

NA

 

of which bullet repayment loans

 

 

 

 

NA

(d) Income generating loans

 

 

 

 

NA

3.  Renewals sanctioned and disbursed during the FY

 

 

 

 

NA

4.Top-up loans sanctioned and disbursed during the FY

 

 

 

 

NA

5. Loans repaid during the FY [(e)+(f)]

 

 

 

NA

NA

(e) Consumption loans

 

 

 

NA

NA

 

of which bullet repayment loans

 

 

 

NA

NA

(f) Income generating loans

 

 

 

NA

NA

6. Non-Performing Loans recovered during the FY [(g) + (h)]

 

 

 

NA

NA

(g) Consumption loans

 

 

 

NA

NA

 

of which bullet repayment loans

 

 

 

NA

NA

(h) Income generating loans

 

 

 

NA

NA

7. Loans written off during the FY [(i) + (j)]

 

 

 

NA

NA

(i) Consumption loans

 

 

 

NA

NA

 

of which bullet repayment loans

 

 

 

NA

NA

(j) Income generating loans

 

 

 

NA

NA

8. Closing balance at the end of FY [(k) + (l)]

 

 

 

 

 

(k) Consumption loans

 

 

 

 

 

 

of which bullet repayment loans

 

 

 

 

 

(l) Income generating loans

 

 

 

 

 

Note: 

(i) The disclosure shall be as specified in Reserve Bank of India (Regional Rural Banks – Credit Facilities) Directions, 2025, as amended from time to time.  For ease of reference the disclosure template has been reproduced here.

(ii) Information may be disclosed separately for loans against gold collateral and loans against silver collateral

(iii) Average LTV ratio is Calculated as ratio of sum of LTVs of loans at the time of sanction to total number of such loans.

(b) Details of gold and silver collateral and auctions

Sr. No.

Particulars

 

 (a)

Unclaimed gold or silver collateral at the end of the financial year (in grams)

 

(b)

Number of loan accounts in which auctions were conducted

 

 (c)

Total outstanding in loan accounts mentioned in (b)

 

 (d)

Gold or silver collateral acquired during the FY due to default of loans (in grams)

 

 (e)

Gold or silver collateral auctioned during the FY (in grams)

 

(f)

Recovery made through auctions during the FY (in ₹ crore)

 

(g)

Recovery percentage:

 

(h)

 

as % of value of gold or silver collateral

 

(i)

 

as % of outstanding loan

 

Notes:

(i) Weight and value of collateral to be calculated in accordance with Reserve Bank of India (Regional Rural Banks – Credit Facilities) Directions, 2025 (as amended from time to time).

(ii) Unclaimed gold or silver collateral as defined under Reserve Bank of India (Regional Rural Banks – Credit Facilities) Directions, 2025 (as amended from time to time).

6. Concentration of deposits, advances, exposures and NPAs

(i) Concentration of deposits

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Particulars

Current Year

Previous Year

Total deposits of the twenty largest depositors

 

 

Percentage of deposits of twenty largest depositors to total deposits of the bank

 

 

(ii) Concentration of advances**

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Particulars

Current Year

Previous Year

Total exposure to the twenty largest borrowers / customers

 

 

Percentage of exposures to the twenty largest borrowers / customers to the total exposure of the bank on borrowers / customers

 

 

*Advances shall be computed based on credit exposure i.e., funded and non-funded limits including derivative exposures where applicable. The sanctioned limits or outstanding, whichever are higher, shall be reckoned. However, in the case of fully drawn term loans, where there is no scope for redrawal of any portion of the sanctioned limit, a bank may reckon the outstanding as the credit exposure.

(iii) Concentration of exposures**

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Particulars

Current Year

Previous Year

Total exposure to the twenty largest borrowers / customers

 

 

Percentage of exposures to the twenty largest borrowers / customers to the total exposure of the bank on borrowers / customers

 

 

**Exposures shall be computed as per applicable RBI regulation.

(iv) Concentration of NPAs

(Amount in ₹ crore)

 

Current Year

Previous Year

Total Exposure to the top twenty NPA accounts

 

 

Percentage of exposures to the twenty largest NPA exposure to total Gross NPAs.

 

 

(7) Derivatives

Note: A bank that has not entered into any derivative transactions, both in the current and previous year may omit these disclosures and instead disclose that it has not entered into any transactions in derivatives in the current and previous years.

(i) Forward rate agreement / Interest rate swap

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Particulars

Current Year

Previous Year

(i) The notional principal of swap agreements

(ii) Losses which would be incurred if counterparties failed to fulfil their obligations under the agreements

(iii) Collateral required by the bank upon entering into swaps

(iv) Concentration of credit risk arising from the swaps (for example, exposures to particular industries, or swaps with highly geared companies.)

(v) The fair value of the swap book

(Note - If the swaps are linked to specific assets, liabilities, or commitments, the fair value shall be the estimated amount that the bank would receive or pay to terminate the swap agreements as on the balance sheet date. For a trading swap the fair value shall be its mark to market value)

 

 

Note: Nature and terms of the swaps including information on credit and market risk and the accounting policies adopted for recording the swaps shall also be disclosed.

(ii) Exchange traded interest rate derivatives

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Sr. No.

Particulars

Current Year

Previous Year

i)

Notional principal amount of exchange traded interest rate derivatives undertaken during the year (instrument wise)

 

 

ii)

Notional principal amount of exchange traded interest rate derivatives outstanding as on March 31 ….(instrument wise)

 

 

iii)

Notional principal amount of exchange traded interest rate derivatives outstanding and not ‘highly effective’ (instrument wise)

 

 

iv)

Mark to market value of exchange traded interest rate derivatives outstanding and not ‘highly effective’ (instrument wise)

 

 

(iii) Disclosures on risk exposure in derivatives

(a) Qualitative disclosures

A bank shall disclose its risk management policies pertaining to derivatives with particular reference to the extent to which derivatives are used, the associated risks and business purposes served. The disclosure shall also include:

 

(i) the structure and organisation for management of risk in derivatives trading,

(ii) the scope and nature of risk measurement, risk reporting and risk monitoring systems,

(iii) policies for hedging and / or mitigating risk and strategies and processes for monitoring the continuing effectiveness of hedges / mitigants, and

(iv) accounting policy for recording hedge and non-hedge transactions; recognition of income, premiums and discounts; valuation of outstanding contracts; provisioning, collateral and credit risk mitigation.

(b) Quantitative disclosures

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Sr.No

Particular

Current Year

Previous Year

Currency Derivatives

Interest rate derivatives

Currency Derivatives

Interest rate derivatives

a)

Derivatives (Notional Principal Amount)

 

 

 

 

i) For hedging

 

 

 

 

ii) For trading

 

 

 

 

b)

Marked to Market Positions [1]

 

 

 

 

i) Asset (+)

 

 

 

 

ii) Liability (-)

 

 

 

 

d)

Likely impact of one percentage change in interest rate (100*PV01)

 

 

 

 

i) on hedging derivatives

 

 

 

 

ii) on trading derivatives

 

 

 

 

e)

Maximum and Minimum of 100*PV01 observed during the year

 

 

 

 

i) on hedging

 

 

 

 

ii) on trading

 

 

 

 

[1] The net position shall be shown either under asset or liability, as the case may be, for each type of derivatives.

(8) Transfers to Depositor Education and Awareness Fund (DEA Fund)

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Sr. No.

Particulars

Current Year

Previous Year

i)

Opening balance of amounts transferred to DEA Fund

 

 

ii)

Add: Amounts transferred to DEA Fund during the year

 

 

iii)

Less: Amounts reimbursed by DEA Fund towards claims

 

 

iv)

Closing balance of amounts transferred to DEA Fund

 

 

A bank shall specify here that the closing balance of the amount transferred to DEA Fund, as disclosed above, are also included under 'Schedule 12 - Contingent Liabilities - Other items for which the bank is contingently liable' or 'Contingent Liabilities - Others,' as the case may be.

(9) Disclosure of complaints

Summary information on complaints received by a bank from customers and from the Offices of Ombudsman (previously office of banking ombudsman)

Sr. No

 

Particulars

Current Year

Previous Year

 

Complaints received by the bank from its customers

1.

 

 

 

 

2.

 

 

 

 

3.

 

Number of complaints disposed during the year

 

 

 

3.1

Of which, number of complaints rejected by the bank

 

 

4.

 

Number of complaints pending at the end of the year

 

 

 

Maintainable complaints received by the bank from Office of Ombudsman

5.

 

Number of maintainable complaints received by the bank from Office of Ombudsman

 

 

 

5.1.

Of 5, number of complaints resolved in favour of the bank by Office of Ombudsman

 

 

 

5.2

Of 5, number of complaints resolved through conciliation / mediation / advisories issued by Office of Ombudsman

 

 

 

5.3

Of 5, number of complaints resolved after passing of Awards by Office of Ombudsman against the bank

 

 

6.

 

Number of Awards unimplemented within the stipulated time (other than those appealed)

 

 

Note: Maintainable complaints refer to complaints on the grounds specifically mentioned in Integrated Ombudsman Scheme, 2021 (Previously Banking Ombudsman Scheme, 2006) and covered within the ambit of the Scheme.

(ii) Top five grounds of complaints received by the bank from customers

Grounds of complaints, (i.e. complaints relating to)

Number of complaints pending at the beginning of the year

Number of complaints received during the year

% increase / decrease in the number of complaints received over the previous year

Number of complaints pending at the end of the year

Of 5, number of complaints pending beyond 30 days

1

2

3

4

5

6

 

Current Year

Ground - 1

 

 

 

 

 

Ground - 2

 

 

 

 

 

Ground - 3

 

 

 

 

 

Ground - 4

 

 

 

 

 

Ground - 5

 

 

 

 

 

Others

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

 

 

 

 

 

Previous Year

Ground - 1

 

 

 

 

 

Ground - 2

 

 

 

 

 

Ground - 3

 

 

 

 

 

Ground - 4

 

 

 

 

 

Ground - 5

 

 

 

 

 

Others

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

 

 

 

 

Note: As per Master List for identifying grounds of complaints as provided in Appendix 1 to circular CEPD.CO.PRD.Cir.No.01/13.01.013/2020-21 dated January 27, 2021 on ‘Strengthening the Grievance Redress Mechanism of Banks’.

1.ATM / Debit Cards

2. Credit Cards

3.Internet / Mobile / Electronic Banking

4. Account opening / difficulty in operation of accounts

5. Mis-selling / Para-banking

6. Recovery Agents / Direct Sales Agents

7. Pension and facilities for senior citizens / differently abled

8. Loans and advances

9. Levy of charges without prior notice / excessive charges / foreclosure charges

10. Cheques / drafts / bills

11. Non-observance of Fair Practices Code

12. Exchange of coins, issuance / acceptance of small denomination notes and coins

13. Bank Guarantees / Letter of Credit and documentary credits

14. Staff behaviour

15. Facilities for customers visiting the branch / adherence to prescribed working hours by the branch, etc

16. Others

(10) Disclosure of penalties imposed by the RBI of India

(i) Penalties imposed by the RBI under the provisions of the (a) Banking Regulation Act, 1949, (b) Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 and (iii) Government Securities Act, 2006 (for bouncing of SGL) shall be disclosed in the ‘Notes to Accounts’ to the balance sheet in the concerned bank’s next Annual Report.

 

(ii) A bank shall make appropriate disclosures on the nature of the breach, number of instances of default and the quantum of penalty imposed.

(iii) The defaulting participant in a reverse repo transaction shall make appropriate disclosure on the number of instances of default as well as the quantum of penalty paid to the RBI during the financial year.

(11) Other Disclosures

 

(i) Business ratios

 

Particular

Current Year

Previous Year

i) Interest Income as a percentage to Working Funds1

ii) Non-interest income as a percentage to Working Funds1

iii) Cost of Deposits

iv) Net Interest Margin2

v) Operating Profit as a percentage to Working Funds1

vi) Return on Assets3

vii) Business (deposits plus advances) per employee4 (in ₹ crore)

viii) Profit per employee (in ₹ crore)

 

 

 

1Working funds to be reckoned as average of total assets (excluding accumulated losses, if any) as reported to RBI in Form X for commercial banks during the 12 months of the financial year.

2Net Interest Margin = Net Interest Income / Average Earning Assets Where Net Interest Income= Interest Income – Interest Expense.

3Return on Assets would be with reference to average working funds (i.e., total of assets excluding accumulated losses, if any).

4For the purpose of computation of business per employee (deposits plus advances), inter-bank deposits shall be excluded.

(ii) Bancassurance business: The details of fees / brokerage earned in respect of insurance broking, agency and bancassurance business undertaken by a bank shall be disclosed for both the current year and previous year.

(iii) Marketing and distribution: A bank shall disclose the details of fees / remuneration received in respect of the marketing and distribution function (excluding bancassurance business) undertaken by it.

(iv)Disclosures regarding Priority Sector Lending Certificates (PSLCs): The amount of PSLCs (category-wise) sold and purchased during the year shall be disclosed.

(v) Provisions and contingencies

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Provision debited to Profit and Loss Account

Current Year

Previous Year

i) Provisions for NPI

 

 

ii) Provision towards NPA

 

 

iii) Provision made towards Income tax

 

 

iv) Other Provisions and Contingencies (with details)

 

 

(vi) Payment of DICGC Insurance Premium

(Amount in ₹ crore)

Sr. No.

Particulars

Current Year

Previous Year

i)

Payment of DICGC Insurance Premium

 

 

ii)

Arrears in payment of DICGC premium

 

 

 

(vii) Disclosure on amortisation of additional pension liability on account of implementation of Pension Scheme in RRBs with effect from November 1, 1993

An RRB which is required to implement the RRB (Employee) Pension Scheme with effect from November 1, 1993 may take the following course of action in the matter:

(a) The liability on account of applicability of pension scheme shall be fully recognised as per the applicable accounting standards.

(b) The expenditure, on account of revision in the pension, may, if not fully charged to the Profit and Loss Account during the financial year ended 2024-25, be amortised over a period not exceeding five years beginning with the financial year ending March 31, 2025, subject to a minimum of 20 percent of the total pension liability involved being expensed every year.

(c) Appropriate disclosure of the accounting policy followed in this regard shall be made in the ‘s to Accounts’ to the financial statements. The bank shall also disclose the amount of unamortised expenditure and the consequential net profit if the unamortised expenditure had been fully recognised in the Profit & Loss Account.

(d) Pension related unamortised expenditure would not be reduced from Tier 1 Capital of the RRBs.

Chapter IV - Other Instructions

A. Inter-branch account – provisioning for net debit balance

11. A bank shall adhere to following guidelines for unreconciled inter-branch account entries.

(1) The bank shall segregate the credit entries outstanding for more than five years in the inter-branch account and transfer them to a separate ‘Blocked Account’ which shall be shown under ‘Other Liabilities and Provisions – Others’.

(2) Any adjustment from the Blocked Account should be permitted only with the uthorization of two officials, one of whom should be from the Controlling / Head Office if the amount exceeds Rupees One lakh.

(3) The balance in Blocked Account shall be reckoned as a liability for the purpose of the maintenance of Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) and Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR).

(4) The bank shall maintain category-wise (head-wise) accounts for various types of transactions put through inter-branch accounts, so that the netting can be done category-wise. As on the balance sheet date, the bank shall segregate the debit and credit entries remaining unreconciled for more than six months and arrive at the net position category-wise, while also considering the balance in the Blocked Account.

(5) The net debit under all the categories of inter-branch accounts shall be aggregated and a provision equivalent to 100 percent of the aggregate net debit shall be made.

Provided that the bank shall ensure that the net debit in one category is not set-off against net credit in another category.

B. Reconciliation of Nostro account and treatment of outstanding entries

12. Treatment of outstanding entries in Nostro accounts shall of a bank shall be as under.

(1) The bank shall take steps to have a strong control over reconciliation and put in place a system of real-time reconciliation, which provides for immediate escalation of differences, if any.

(2) There shall be close monitoring of pending items in Nostro accounts by top management at short intervals.

(3) All unreconciled credit entries in Nostro accounts which are outstanding for more than three years shall be transferred to a Blocked Account and shown as outstanding liabilities.

(4) The balance in the Blocked Account shall be reckoned for the purpose of CRR / SLR.

(5) A bank shall make 100 percent provision in respect of all unreconciled debit entries in the Nostro accounts, which are outstanding for more than two years.

C. Transfer to / appropriation from Reserve funds

13. In terms of sections 17(1) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 a bank is required to transfer, out of the balance of profit as disclosed in the profit and loss account, a sum equivalent to not less than 20 percent of such profit to Reserve Fund.

14. Unless specifically allowed by extant regulations, the bank shall take prior approval from the RBI before any appropriation is made from the Statutory Reserve or any other reserve.

15. Banks are further advised that,

(1) all expenses including provisions and write-offs ecognized in a period, whether mandatory or prudential, shall be reflected in the profit and loss account for the period as an ‘above the line’ item (i.e., before arriving at the net profit / loss for the year);

(2) draw down from reserves, with the prior approval of RBI, shall be effected only ‘below the line’ (i.e. after arriving at the net profit / loss for the year); and

(3) suitable disclosures shall be made of such draw down in the ‘s on Accounts’ to the Balance Sheet.

(4) Subject to compliance with applicable laws, a bank, without prior approval of RBI, can utilise the share premium account for meeting issue expenses of shares to the extent that such expenses are incremental costs directly attributable to the transaction that otherwise would have been avoided.

Provided that, the share premium account shall not be utilised for writing off the expenses relating to the issue of debt instruments.

Explanation: For the purposes of this Direction, issue expenses shall include registration and other regulatory fees, payments made to legal, accounting, and other professional advisers, printing costs, and stamp duties.

D. Provisioning for fraud

16. In respect of provisioning for frauds, a bank that has reported the fraud within the prescribed time shall have the option to make the provision for the same over a period, not exceeding four quarters, commencing from the quarter in which the fraud has been detected.

17. Where the bank chooses to provide for the fraud over two to four quarters and this results in the full provisioning being made in more than one financial year, subject to compliance with applicable laws, it may debit reserves other than the Statutory Reserve by the amount remaining un-provided at the end of the financial year by credit to provisions.

Provided that it should subsequently proportionately reverse the debits to the reserves and complete the provisioning by debiting profit and loss account, in the successive quarters of the next financial year.

18. Whe re there has been delay, beyond the prescribed period, in reporting the fraud to the RBI, the entire provisioning is required to be made at once.

E. Unreconciled balances

19. Unreconciled credit balances in any transitory account representing unclaimed balances shall not be transferred to the profit and loss account or to any reserves.

F. Deferred tax liability (DTL) on Special Reserve created under Section 36(1) (viii) of the Income Tax Act, 1961

20. A bank shall make provisions for DTL on the Special Reserve created under Section 36(1)(viii) of Income Tax Act, 1961.

G. Window dressing

21. A bank shall ensure that balance sheet and profit and loss account reflects true and fair picture of its financial position.

22. Instances of window dressing of financials, short provisioning, misclassification of NPAs, under-reporting / incorrect computation of exposure / risk weight, incorrect capitalisation of expenses, capitalisation of interest on NPAs, deliberate inflation of asset and liabilities at the end of the financial year and subsequent reversal immediately in next financial year, etc. shall be viewed seriously and appropriate penal action in terms of the provisions of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 shall be considered.

 

Chapter V - Repeal and Other Provisions

A. Repeal and saving

23. With the issue of these Directions, the existing Directions, instructions, and guidelines relating to Financial Statements- Presentation and Disclosures as applicable to Regional Rural Banks stands repealed, as communicated vide notification dated XX, 2025. The Directions, instructions, and guidelines repealed prior to the issuance of these Directions shall continue to remain repealed.

24. Notwithstanding such repeal, any action taken or purported to have been taken, or initiated under the repealed Directions, instructions, or guidelines shall continue to be governed by the provisions thereof. All approvals or acknowledgments granted under these repealed lists shall be deemed as governed by these Directions.

B. Application of other laws not barred

25. The provisions of these Directions shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of the provisions of any other laws, rules, regulations or directions, for the time being in force.

C. Interpretations

26. For the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of these Directions or in order to remove any difficulties in the application or interpretation of the provisions of these Directions, the RBI may, if it considers necessary, issue necessary clarifications in respect of any matter covered herein and the interpretation of any provision of these Directions given by the RBI shall be final and binding.

 

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