Advantages
  • Frees up commercial bank’s capital for further lending.
  • Promotes investment and growth in the economy.
  • Centralizes NPA resolution with experts.
  • Cleans up bank balance sheets.
  • Government guarantee provides comfort to commercial banks selling NPAs.
Disadvantages
  • Mere transfer of NPAs does not reduce overall NPA in the economy.
  • The bad bank itself has to manage and recover these bad loans.
  • Potential for moral hazard if banks become less cautious in lending.
  • Financial burden on the government if guarantees are invoked.
  • The text does not explicitly list disadvantages.