PFC may raise Rs 5,000 crore via tax-free bonds

28 Jun 2011 Evaluate

Power Finance Corporation (PFC) may raise Rs 5,000 crore by issuing tax-free bonds in the current financial year to finance lending to power projects. The company is awaiting for the Ministry of Finance's nod to allow it to raise Rs 5,000 crore through tax-free bonds in the current fiscal and the approval is expected in a day or two. This step would bring down interest costs -- the interest at which PFC borrows from the market for further lending -- for the company. It may bring the interest cost down by about 1.5% for the company.

Recently, PFC raised about Rs 3,000 crore through 3, 5 and 10-year bonds. The company garnered a majority of Rs 2,100 crore of this borrowing from the ten-year segment. The issue was scheduled for allotment on June 29.The lender had invited 21 bankers to underwrite 500 million rupees each and set 9.64 percent, 9.62 percent and 9.61 percent coupons for the 3, 5 and 10-year tenures, respectively.

The company’s net profit for the quarter ended March 31, 2011 has marginally increased by 0.99% at Rs  606.75 crore as compared to Rs 600.77 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2010. Its total income for the quarter under review has registered a modest growth of 24.47% to Rs 2623.42 crore as compared to Rs 2107.61 crore for the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

PFC provides large range of financial products and services like project term loan, lease financing, direct discounting of bills, short term loan, and consultancy services for various power projects in generation, transmission, distribution sector as well as for renovation and modernization of existing power projects.

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