The authorities on Monday accredited the very best bid of Tata Steel Long Products Limited for buying 93.71 per cent fairness in Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd (NINL), held by three way partnership companions of 4 CPSEs and two Odisha authorities corporations, at an enterprise worth of Rs 12,100 crore. NINL has an built-in metal plant with a capability of 1.1 MT, at Kalinganagar, Odisha.
The Central authorities doesn’t maintain any stake in NINL immediately, which has collected losses and a detrimental web price. NINL is a three way partnership of 4 CPSEs, — MMTC, NMDC, BHEL, MECON — and a couple of Odisha government-owned corporations OMC and IPICOL.
An various mechanism, comprising Transport minister Nitin Gadkari, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, has accredited the bid, Union finance ministry mentioned in a press release. The firm has been operating in large losses and its plant is closed since April 2020.
“The company has huge debt and liabilities exceeding Rs. 6,600 crores as on 31.3.2021, including overdues of promoters (Rs 4,116 crore), banks (Rs 1,741 crore), other creditors and employees. The company has negative net worth of Rs 3,487 crore and accumulated losses of Rs 4,228 crore as of 31.3.2021,” the federal government mentioned.
Tata Steel Long Products was chosen as the very best bidder, defeating JSW Steel and a consortium of Jindal Steel & Power Limited and Nalwa Steel and Power Ltd. The reserve value for the bid was accredited at at Rs 5616.97 crore. The cash increase via stake sale will go in the direction of funding firm liabilities and to the promoting shareholders. This is second giant privatisation deal put up sale of Air India to Tata Group.
“This is the first instance of privatisation of a public sector steel manufacturing enterprise in India. The success of the transaction is a win-win situation for all. The biggest advantage of privatisation will be to the local economy of the region as the strategic buyer will be able to revive a closed plant, bring in modern technology, best managerial practices and make infusion of fresh capital, which will help in augmenting the capacity of the plant,” the federal government mentioned.
On the request of the Boards of promoting shareholder PSEs and on concurrence by Odisha authorities, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs had given ‘in-principle’ approval to strategic disinvestment of NINL in January 2020, the federal government mentioned. The Department of Disinvestment & Public Asset Management mentioned the transaction was made via an open-market, aggressive bidding course of.
The authorities will problem Letter of Intent to Tata Steel Long Products, and thereafter signal a share buy settlement. At this stage, 10 per cent of the bid quantity shall be paid by the profitable bidder into the escrow account. The authorities had offered entry to digital information room of the corporate to the bidders for conducting due diligence.
