“..the committee of directors for fund raising at their meeting today has inter-alia, approved the allotment of 15,000 rated, listed, unsecured, redeemable non-convertible debentures of face value of Rs 10,00,000 each in three series, aggregating upto Rs 1,500 crore on private placement basis,” Indus said in a Wednesday afternoon exchange filing.
The funds via issuance of NCDs will be raised in three tranches or `series’ of Rs 750 crore, Rs 375 crore and Rs 375 crore respectively. The tenure of the three series are 24, 30 and 36 months, according to Indus’ exchange filing.
At Indus’s second quarter earnings call in late-October, CFO Vikas Poddar had said the company is raising funds via issuance of NCDs as it’s classified as a large corporate, and is accordingly, required to comply with a provision of raising a minimum 25% of its incremental long-term borrowing by way of debt securities.
He had added that the money would be used for investment towards the company’s growth and funding capex needs.
Indus had recently made a provision of Rs 1,770.9 crore towards doubtful debt in the fiscal second quarter, a sharp 43% rise on-quarter, as the telecom infrastructure provider was yet to receive payment from cash-strapped Vodafone Idea<\/a> (Vi), a key customer. Indus, in fact, has agreed to Vi’s request for softer payment terms.
The dues from Vi have dented Indus’s second quarter net profit which plunged 44% on-year to Rs 872 crore. ET had earlier reported that Vi owes nearly Rs 7,000 crore to Indus.
Under the softer payment proposal, Vi will clear its dues outstanding as of December 31, 2022, between January and July 2023, and 100% of its dues from January 2023 onwards.
Indus shares<\/a> were trading 1.08 % lower at Rs 196.25 on the BSE<\/a> Wednesday.
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