NEW DELHI: India is committed to protecting state banks suffering from mounting bad loans after they reported almost $2.7 billion in losses in the last two quarters, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday.

The banks are struggling under a mountain of soured loans, prompting central bank governor Raghuram Rajan to set a 2017 deadline for them to clean up their balance sheets.

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