A Canara Bank-led consortium of lenders is scouting for a buyer for a 270 MW power plant in Maharashtra which came under corporate debt restructuring (CDR) plan. IDBI Capital Markets & Securities Ltd (IDBI Capital) has invited an expression of interest to take over the thermal power project on behalf of the consortium of lenders led by Canara Bank. "IDBI Capital invites expression of interest from the interested parties, who fulfils the qualification criteria and who may be willing to take over the management and control of the company by acquiring 100 per cent equity of the company," IDBI Capital has said in the EOI document. The last date of sending EOIs is August 8. The company has set up a 270 MW coal based thermal power plant located in Nagpur, Maharashtra. The project has achieved commercial operation during 2013-14, however, due to change in policy on price and distribution of all grades of coal by the coal ministry in 2012. The new rule allowed coal supply only to ...
The bank had raised Rs 1,124 crore in March through a rights issues of equity shares
Net NPAs at 6.33% showed a slight decline as against 6.42% a year ago, says Rakesh Sharma
Canara Bank in the fourth quarter reported sequentially better numbers on asset quality
The bank reported a March quarter net profit of Rs 214 crore
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Divestment is seen as a part of the monetisation process of non-core assets of Canara Bank
Board has given approval for the sale of 13.45 per cent stake in the mortgage firm
Proceeds will be utilised to fund business growth
The Bangalore-based state lender had a net profit of Rs 84.9 crore for the Oct-Dec quarter of FY16
The bank doubled provisions on non performing assets to 9.81% in the quarter as against 4.27% a year ago
Net NPAs also increased to 6.69 per cent of net advances as against 2.9 per cent in the same quarter last year
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The bank said separately that, RBI has imposed a penalty of Rs 2 crore on it for violation of anti-money laundering norms
However, shares of bank closed at 253.70 per unit up 5.31% on the BSE
Bank's gross NPAs during quarter soar to 9.4% as against 3.89% during same period in the preceding fiscal
Gross NPAs jumped to 9.4% as of March 31, from 5.84% in December
Several banks including country's largest lender SBI have announced changes in their MCLR rates
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