These institutions as well as guidelines that permit banks to purchase and sell NPAs and the Corporate Debt Restructuring mechanism have enabled banks to deal with the "flow" and not merely the stock of NPAs. These measures enable the banks to deal with the NPAs on an ongoing basis.
(iii)  Ownership structure  Since public sector banks could divest only by accessing the stock markets except for a few banks all the others are now listed on the stock exchanges. The Government holding in these banks range from 51 percent (OBC, Dena) to 76 percent (BOM).