QUESTION

Easy

Economy

Prelims 2017

Which of the following statements best describes the term ‘Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Stressed Assets (S4A)’, recently seen in the news?

Select an option to attempt

Explanation

A scheme was launched by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 13 June 2016, named Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Stressed Assets (S4A Scheme) for addressing the large stressed assets of the corporate sector with banks.

The S4A Scheme aims at the deep financial restructuring of big debted projects by allowing lenders (banks) to acquire equity of the stressed project.

In this context, the scheme makes the financial restructuring of large projects at the same time helping the lender's ability to deal with such stressed assets. It is intended to restore the flow of credit to critical sectors including infrastructure.

Hence, option B is the correct answer.

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