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The Economic Survey on Friday unveiled an early-warning system, 'Health Score', that could read signs of impending rollover risk problems in the non-banking finance sector. The IL&FS crisis following debt defaults in 2018 had led to a contagion in the domestic non-banking financial company (NBFCs) sector. The 'Health Score', developed for NBFC and housing finance company (HFCs) sectors, can help detect early-warning signals of impending liquidity problems facing the companies in the sectors. The Survey, presented in Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday, said the Health Score could be used to provide early warning signals of impending rollover risk problems in the NBFC sector and help set prudential threshold of permitted funding to the sector. A sudden payment default without any prior warning by Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) in August 2018 had triggered panic and caused liquidity crisis in the NBFC sector. Quoting the recent ...