Thursday 14 August 2014

Lanco Infratech surges on selling its 1200 MW Udupi thermal power plant.

       Lanco Infratech (LITL), the leading integrated infrastructure player in the country having business verticals in EPC, Power, Solar, Natural Resources and Infrastructure, has sold its Udupi Power plant to Adani Power, the power business arm of Indian business conglomerate Adani Group for its 1200 MW Udupi power plant. The deal is valued at more than Rs 6,000 crore. The Lanco Udupi Power Plant has already signed an agreement with Karnataka Government for further expansion of 1320 MW.
     The imported coal based thermal power plant of Lanco in Udupi, which supplies 90% of the power generated to Karnataka State and 10% to Punjab State, is the first independent power project in the country based on 100%  import coal with a captive jetty of 4 million tons per annum and an external coal handling system in the new Mangalore Port Trust. The capacity can be, if required, expanded to handle another 4 million ton capacity.
     For Lanco Infratech, this transaction will support the company in reducing its debt and will enable Lanco to receive about Rs 2,000 crore as cash and additionally, Adani Power will take Udupi Power's long-time debt  of around Rs 4.000 crore.
     The promoters holding in the company stood at 70.16% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 5.87% and 23.98% respectively.
     The BSE group'B' stock of face value Rs 1 has touched a 52 week high of Rs 14.94 on 23-May-2014 and a 52 week low of Rs 5.00 on 28-Aug-2013.
     Cureent price of stock is Rs 8.95 up by 0.42 points from its previous closing of Rs 8.53 on the BSE.


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