IDBI Bank Q1 loss widens to ₹2,410 cr.

August 14, 2018 09:43 pm | Updated 09:44 pm IST - New Delhi

HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, 28/03/2018: A view of IDBI bank in Secunderabad on March 28, 2018. IDBI Bank Ltd said that fraudulent loans of Rs772 crore ($118.8 million) were issued from five of its branches in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. 
Photo: G. Ramakrishna

HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, 28/03/2018: A view of IDBI bank in Secunderabad on March 28, 2018. IDBI Bank Ltd said that fraudulent loans of Rs772 crore ($118.8 million) were issued from five of its branches in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Photo: G. Ramakrishna

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.

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