Looking to rope in a strategic partner for its Haryana SEZ project, corporate giant Reliance Industries is believed to be in talks with infrastructure development and finance major Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd (L&FS) and a couple of other players for sale of a minority strategic stake of its stake.
However, it could not be ascertained how much stake RIL could offload in the venture and what was the valuation it was looking at for the stake sale, sources said, adding that the talks were still in preliminary stages.
In its annual report for 2008-09, RIL had said it was planning to bring in a strategic business partner in its Haryana SEZ project to maximise investment potential in the joint venture unit. The SEZ was to originally come up on 10,000 hectares at an investment of over Rs 25,000 crore, but the size was scaled down to 5,000 hectares after the government put a cap on land acquisition for such projects.
RIL and the Haryana government had entered into a deal in 2006 for setting up the multi-product SEZ, at that time billed as India's largest, and expected to attract about Rs 1,00,000 crore of third-party investments.
Also, RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani had said then that the JV company would be listed on the bourses. Created to develop special economic zones in the northern state, Reliance Haryana SEZ Ltd is a joint venture between Reliance Ventures Ltd, an RIL subsidiary, and Haryana State Industrial Investment Development Corporation (HSIIDC).
crackcrackCompany Name | CMP |
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Reliance Industries | 1300.05 |
Indian Oil Corp. | 134.60 |
BPCL | 295.40 |
HPCL | 379.85 |
MRPL | 137.20 |
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