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India on Capital Infusion, Merges Loss-Making Lender IFCI

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India is bearing in mind impelling about Rs 20 billion into state-run IFCI Limited, merging it with its other unit, Stock Holding Corporation of India, to liberalise the harassed lender, as per the media report.


Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration is looking to make the capital infusion into loss-making IFCI to boost its balance sheet and decrease its debt before seeing a merger, the people said.


IFCI has stated annual losses for at least four straight years to March 31, 2022, and has lost more than 17% of market capitalisation in the last year.


In July, Care Ratings Limited identified rising bad-debt ratios and tenacious losses as apprehensions for IFCI Limited. On the other hand, the government has been looking at cutting down its experience in loss-making units through sales or conclusions, though it has expended billions of dollars to bail out state-run banks weighed down with soured loans.


They said that no full and final decision had been reserved on IFCI, and the government can still drip the merger and cash infusion idea. Emails sent to IFCI and Stock Holding Corporation went unreciprocated, and the finance ministry spokesperson failed to comment.


Stock Holding Corporation bids shared depository services in India and was set up as a secondary of IFCI Limited. The 32-year- old establishment counts Life Insurance Corporation of India, the nation’s principal insurer, among its backers, according to the information accessible on its website.

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