Infrastructure developer IVRCL Limited is going slow on its proposal to monetise three more build, operate and transfer projects in the light of expectations that the Union government will soon take a decision to allow 100 per cent stake sale in BOT
Stake sale in three build-operate-transfer BOT road projects has come as big relief for IVRCL, which had in the past seen significant downgrades due to delay in monetisation of assets and increasing liquidity issues.
As lesser traffic moves across Kumarpalyam and Salem in Tamil Nadu, the road project which connects them has been downgraded to IND BB-, with a negative outlook by India Ratings.
The share price of Hyderabad-based infrastructure firm IVRCL plunged today following a report in an English daily on the death of a National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) consultant said to be overseeing the company’s road project.
Infrastructure major IVRCL Ltd has stopped work in the about Rs 300-crore hydel power project in Nepal, which it had won in 2010, demanding increase in the budget, sources said.
The Ministry of Environment and Forest has rejected infrastructure giant IVRCL Ltd's two sand mining projects in Uttar Pradesh due to improper documentation of mining area and environmental issues.
Even after the Essel Group sold its entire stake in infrastructure company, IVRCL, investor interest remains good. Funds like Merrill Lynch and Societe Generale have recently bought 4.22 million shares of IVRCL at Rs 46-47 apiece.
IVRCL Limited, a city-based infrastructure major, has bagged multiple orders valued at Rs 514.75 crore under its buildings, power and transportation divisions.
The Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel group’s paring its stake in IVRCL Limited augurs well for the Hyderabad-based infrastructure major, according to IVRCL’s executive director (finance) and group chief financial officer, R Balarami Reddy.
IVRCL has tanked 8% to Rs 44, extending its previous day’s 6% fall, after Essel Group sold more than 5% stake in the infrastructure company through open market transaction for Rs 68 crore on Thursday.
The Hyderabad-based infrastructure company, IVRCL, is putting six of its 10 road projects on the block, to retire at least a fifth of the Rs 5,000-crore consolidated debt by the end of the current financial year.