NPA Strategy Officer AI

Invoked when: account classified NPA, or monthly NPA review requires strategy update for aged accounts

• –Reads the full account file — original sanction, security documentation, disbursement history, repayment record, collections history, prior legal notices issued, and any court proceedings already initiated — and produces a case strategy assessment: what recovery routes are available, which is most viable given the security and borrower profile, and what the sequencing of actions should be.
• –Evaluates the available legal routes — SARFAESI (where security is mortgaged property above threshold), DRT (Debt Recovery Tribunal for debts above ₹20 lakh), civil suit (for unsecured or below-threshold cases), IBC (where the borrower is a company and insolvency is a viable resolution route) — and maps each route against the specific account characteristics: security type, outstanding amount, borrower entity type, and estimated timeline and cost per route.
• –Identifies documentation gaps that would weaken the legal case before proceedings are initiated — missing mortgage registration, security valuation older than 6 months, demand notice not properly served, or loan agreement clauses that may be challenged — so the human credit and legal team can remedy them before filing.
• –Does not provide legal advice and cannot assess the strength of a legal case as a qualified advocate would. It maps the procedural framework and the documentation position. External legal counsel must review every case before court or tribunal proceedings are initiated.

Invoked when: borrower or borrower's representative approaches with a settlement proposal, or the collections team recommends exploring settlement for a specific account

• –Reads the current settlement policy (retrieved via RAG) — the minimum recovery thresholds by loan vintage and security category, the maximum haircut permitted at each authorisation level, the conditions that must be met (security surrender, guarantor release, full settlement vs staggered) — and checks whether the incoming proposal or the contemplated settlement falls within policy parameters before the human decision-maker engages with the borrower.
• –Structures the settlement options available within policy for the specific account: a one-time settlement at the policy floor, a staggered settlement with a defined timeline, a security-surrender-plus-partial-cash structure, or a combination. For each option it calculates the implied haircut, the recovery as a percentage of outstanding principal, the provisioning impact, and the tax implications under the Income Tax Act for bad debt write-offs.
• –Retrieves the settlement history for comparable accounts — similar outstanding size, similar security type, similar vintage — from the settlement log to establish what settlements have been approved before on comparable cases, giving the human authoriser a precedent baseline that prevents both under-recovery and inconsistent treatment across borrowers.
• –Cannot negotiate with the borrower or their representative. Settlement discussions are conducted by human credit managers. The agent structures the option space and the policy guardrails before the conversation happens, and documents the terms agreed for compliance and audit purposes after it concludes.

Invoked when: SARFAESI action is authorised on an account, or at each SARFAESI milestone to check procedural compliance

• –Maps the full SARFAESI procedure — Section 13(2) demand notice, Section 13(4) possession notice, DM order for possession, security valuation, auction notice publication requirements, and the prescribed timelines for each step under the SARFAESI Act 2002 and the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules 2002 — against the current status of each account in SARFAESI proceedings, and flags any step that is overdue or at risk of procedural non-compliance.
• –For accounts where the borrower has filed a Section 17 DRT objection or a High Court writ challenging the SARFAESI action, tracks the case status, hearing dates, and any stay orders — and alerts the human legal team when a hearing date is approaching and the necessary documentation needs to be prepared for counsel.
• –Validates that security valuations used in auction notices are within the 6-month validity period required by the rules, that the auction notice has been published in the prescribed newspapers and on the CERSAI portal, and that the reserve price is not below the Fair Market Value — procedural errors in any of these steps can invalidate the entire SARFAESI action and require restarting the process.
• –Does not file SARFAESI notices, apply to the District Magistrate, publish auction notices, or take any step in the SARFAESI process. It monitors and flags. Every SARFAESI action is executed by the authorised human officer and external legal counsel.

Invoked when: the collections or NPA team recommends a write-off, or an account reaches the age and provisioning level at which write-off is being considered under RBI norms

• –Reads the full case history — original exposure, security position and current valuation, total provisioning accumulated, all recovery actions taken and their outcomes, legal proceedings status, and the total cost of recovery incurred to date — and builds the write-off justification case: why recovery is no longer economically viable or legally feasible, and what the residual recovery probability is if proceedings continue.
• –Checks the write-off against the RBI's IRACP norms — the required provisioning before write-off is permitted, the classification age requirements, and whether a technical write-off (removing from gross NPA while retaining the legal claim) or a full write-off is appropriate given the legal proceedings status.
• –Distinguishes between a technical write-off — where the loan is removed from the balance sheet but the legal claim is preserved and recovery efforts continue — and a full write-off where the legal claim is also extinguished. These require different board authorities and different documentation, and the agent structures the case for whichever is appropriate given the account's legal position.
• –Documents the complete decision trail for audit and RBI inspection purposes: what was owed, what was recovered, what was provisioned, what recovery actions were taken, why further recovery is not viable, and what authority level is required for the write-off — so that the board resolution approving the write-off has a complete evidentiary basis and is defensible in any subsequent regulatory review.