State-owned IDBI Bank on Tuesday reported widening of its loss to ₹2,409.89 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, hurt by higher provisioning for bad loans.
The bank had posted a loss of ₹853 crore in the April-June quarter of the previous fiscal.
Its total provisioning for non performing assets, or bad loans, more than doubled to ₹5,236.07 crore in the first quarter of 2018-19, from ₹2,035.96 crore in the year-earlier period. The provision for bad loans alone was ₹4,602.55 crore, as against ₹1,873.21 crore.
Total income of the bank for the quarter also declined to ₹6,402.50 crore, as against Rs 6,730.88 crore a year earlier, IDBI said in a regulatory filing.