Reserve Bank of India (Rural Cooperative Banks – Income Recognition, Asset Classification and Provisioning) Amendment Directions, 2026
RBI notification RBI/2026-27/65 · 29 Apr 2026
RBI notification RBI/2026-27/65 · 29 Apr 2026
Summary
Check the official recordThe Reserve Bank of India amends income recognition, asset classification, and provisioning norms for Rural Cooperative Banks. The update adds rules for borrower accounts under resolution plans. Banks must maintain an additional specific provision of five percent of the outstanding debt for these accounts. Banks must also maintain this provision for each instance of repeated restructuring. The amendment defines conditions for the reversal of these provisions based on debt repayment or facility type. It also specifies interest income recognition methods for these accounts. These changes apply to all Rural Cooperative Banks effective July 1, 2026.
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RBI/2026-27/65 DOR.STR.REC.54/21-04-048/2026-27 April 29, 2026
Reserve Bank of India (Rural Cooperative Banks – Income Recognition, Asset Classification and Provisioning) Amendment Directions, 2026
Please refer to Reserve Bank of India (Rural Cooperative Banks – Resolution of Stressed Assets) Amendment Directions, 2026 dated April 29, 2026.
Consequent to the aforesaid Amendment Directions, in exercise of the powers conferred by the sections 20, 21 and 35A read with the section 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 and all other laws enabling the Reserve Bank of India (hereinafter called the Reserve Bank) in this regard, the Reserve Bank being satisfied that it is necessary and expedient in the public interest so to do, hereby issues the Amendment Directions hereinafter specified.
These Amendment Directions modify the Directions as under:
i. Paragraph 32A and 32B shall be inserted as under:
32A. If a resolution plan is implemented in adherence to the provisions of Chapter IV-A of Reserve Bank of India (Rural Cooperative Banks – Resolution of Stressed Assets) Directions, 2025 dated November 28, 2025, borrower accounts which are classified as ‘Standard’ may be retained as such upon implementation. Borrower accounts which may have slipped into NPA between the date of occurrence of the calamity and implementation of the resolution plan, shall be upgraded as ‘Standard’, upon implementation of the resolution plan.
Provided that after implementation of the resolution plan, the subsequent asset classification shall be governed by the criteria laid out in these Directions.
32B. Accounts which are restructured under paragraph 33J to 33R of the Reserve Bank of India (Rural Cooperative Banks – Resolution of Stressed Assets) Directions, 2025 dated November 28, 2025, where a subsequent restructuring is necessitated under the provisions of Chapter IV-A of the aforesaid Directions, shall continue to be classified as ‘Standard’.
ii. The following shall be inserted in Chapter IV - Provisioning Norms
B1. Additional specific provisioning in case of resolution plan implemented under Chapter IV-A of the Reserve Bank of India (Rural Cooperative Banks – Resolution of Stressed Assets) Directions, 2025
51A. A bank shall make an additional specific provision of five percent of the outstanding debt in respect of borrowers, for whom a resolution plan has been implemented in terms of Chapter IV-A of the Reserve Bank of India (Rural Cooperative Banks – Resolution of Stressed Assets) Directions, 2025. The additional specific provisions shall be over and above the applicable prudential provisions subject to a ceiling of hundred per cent.
51B. For accounts where repeated restructuring is necessitated in terms of Chapter IV-A of the Reserve Bank of India (Rural Cooperative Banks – Resolution of Stressed Assets) Directions, 2025, a bank shall make additional specific provisioning of five per cent of the outstanding debt for each instance of restructuring made under the aforesaid Directions. This additional specific provisioning shall be over and above the applicable prudential provisions subject to a ceiling of hundred per cent.
51C. The additional specific provisions maintained in terms of paragraph 51A and 51B above may be written back upon the borrower paying at least 20% of the outstanding debt with the bank, without slipping into NPA post implementation of the restructuring, and without being subjected to another restructuring.
51D. If the outstanding debt post-restructuring is only in the form of non-fund-based facilities or facilities in the nature of cash credit / overdraft, the additional specific provisions made in terms of paragraph 51A and 51B above can be reversed after one year, post implementation of the restructuring, provided the borrower was not in default at any point of time during the period concerned. In case the borrower defaults during the above period, the conditions for reversal of additional specific provision, mentioned above, shall be tested from the date of rectification of default.
iii. The following shall be inserted in part B, Chapter V – Income Recognition:
62A. Interest income recognition in respect of borrower accounts where resolution plan has been implemented in terms of Chapter IV-A of the Reserve Bank of India (Rural Cooperative Banks – Resolution of Stressed Assets) Directions, 2025 dated November 28, 2025, shall be on accrual basis.
62B. For accounts specified at paragraph 32B of these Directions, interest income shall be recognized on cash basis.
(Vaibhav Chaturvedi)
Chief General Manager