Lanco Infratech, currently busy with a 1,200 mw thermal power project in Udupi district of Karnatka with an outlay of Rs6,000 crore, has failed to make the repayment due on January 15 to its lenders.
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Company officials argue it isn’t a default, but a delay in repayment. The project, being developed by its subsidiary Udupi Power Corp (UPCL), carries a debt of about Rs4,500 crore.
“As CRISIL mentioned in its ratings rationale for its January 4 downgrade of UPCL’s long-term debt and bank guarantees, a default on the January 15 debt repayment could trigger another rating downgrade, fanning concerns of potential bankruptcy and, once again, denting stock price performance,” Nomura analysts Anirudh Gangahar, Ivan Lee and Ankit Kumar said in a report dated January 13.
A senior Lanco official reportedly reasoned that about 90% of the power produced by the plant is offered to distribution companies, or discoms, of the Karnataka government, which owe it about Rs500 crore.
Lanco had earlier completed the first unit of the project with a capacity of about 600 mw. However, the second unit, of another 600 mw, was delayed as the transmission lines to evacuate the power got stuck in environment clearances.
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