Mumbai, Jan. 2 -- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued amendment directions revising the risk-weighting framework for non-banking financial companies' (NBFCs) exposure to infrastructure projects. Under the revised capital adequacy norms, loans extended by NBFCs to "high-quality infrastructure projects" will attract lower risk weights, subject to specified conditions. Loans to such projects where the borrower has repaid at least 2% of the sanctioned project debt will carry a risk weight of 75%, while those where at least 5% of the sanctioned debt has been repaid will attract a lower risk weight of 50%.

The central bank noted further that if projects initially classified as high-quality infrastructure projects subsequently fail to me...