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The banking sector is a linchpin of economic growth and development, with its prosperity heavily influenced by various factors of the economy. The cooperative model of banking to achieve both of personal and community development goals has been chosen as an instrument for fostering high and stable financial growth. As a key metric for assessing the financial health and profitability of banks, including cooperative banks, NPAs plays a crucial role in evaluating their stability and resilience. Notably the Indian Banking system, now, compares with the global benchmarks, reflecting commendable Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE) and Credit risk (NPAs). The purpose of this article is an attempt to analyze the trends of NPAs (Gross NPAs and Net NPAs) of selected Urban Cooperative Banks (UCBs) and assessing the profitability using ROA and ROE over the period of 2016-2022 by employing the linear trend analysis and multiple regression model. Secondary sources provided the information gathered for the study. The study indicates that the trend of NPAs is fluctuating over time with low minimal correlation. GNPAs and NNPAs have a significant impact on ROA for the selected UCBs- Nagarik Samabay Bank (NSB) and Gauhati Cooperative Urban Bank (GCUB). However, during the period 2020-2022, GNPA sand NNPAs did not exhibit significant influence on ROE for Gauhati Cooperative Urban Bank. Hence, the dynamism of NPA and their impact on profitability on banking sector will reflect the growth of financial sector of the economy.

The introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1991 by the Government of India (GoI) made it very clear that the viability of commercial banks is conditioned on their ability to make profits. In a globalized world, the whims and fancies of business cycles govern the fate of banks and a recessionary phase hampers the bank’s ability to pile on the profits thereby increasing their stock of non-performing assets. India, recently, is placed in a very bizarre situation, — some of the renowned banks are reporting huge losses but there is a very limited impact on stock markets. Strategically, the government, however, has taken corrective measures to arrest the growth of non-performing assets (NPAs) of banks. This paper builds upon a time series model capturing the position of NPAs of banks in India (excluding foreign banks operating in India). Empirically, there is a uni-directional causal relationship running from NPAs of banks to growth. Theoretically, what we can conclude is that imposing strict lending norms on banks actually manifests itself into a deeper recession, lowers growth and in turn aggravates the NPA problem further.

The problem of NPA is not limited to only Indian public sector banks, but it prevails in the entire banking industry.  Major portion of bad debts in Indian Banks arose out of lending to the priority sector at the dictates of politicians and bureaucrats.  If only banks had monitored their loans effectively, the bad debt problem could have been contained if not eliminated. The present study has been designed to illustrate the necessity and the nature of the non-performing assets in Indian Bank, Tamil Nadu. Finding out Non Performing Assets –NPA- under the Priority sector lending in Indian Bank and Compare with Public Sector Banks and making appropriate suggestions to avoid future NPAs and to manage existing NPAs in Indian Bank are the other major objectives of this study. The scope of this study covers on the basis: (i)  measuring for the banks to avoid future NPAs & to reduce existing NPAs, (ii) guiding for the government in creating & implementing new strategies to control NPAs, (iii) selecting appropriate techniques suited to manage the NPAs and develop a time bound action plan to arrest the growth of NPAs.