NEW DELHI: A high proportion of Indian corporations have weak balance sheets, posing a threat to the financial system of the world’s fastest-growing major economy, the Reserve Bank of India said Wednesday.

Almost one in six of the 2,711 listed companies surveyed by the RBI is rated as weak based on its level of debt and ability to service that debt, the central bank said in its Financial Stability Report.

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