(plastemart) -- The West Bengal government is keen on completing transfer of its shares in Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd (HPL), which is facing funds crunch, before March 31 next year, as per Press Trust of India.
One of the major promoters of HPL with around 39% equity, the state is keen to exit after evaluation of its shares, of which MRC reported earlier. An auction would then be held and the highest price fetched would be offered to the other principal promoter, Purnendu Chatterjee's TCG, as first right of refusal.TCG owns around 36% stake in HPL.
A decision on whether the battle for shareholding in Haldia Petrochemicals (HPL) would be dragged to the International Court of Arbitration (ICA) is to be be taken this month, following a Supreme Court order directing the high court to dispose the case in December.
As MRC wrote previosly, West Bengal government has decided to make an urgent pitch to the State Bank of India to save Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd.
Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd is a modern naphtha based petrochemical complex at Haldia, West Bengal, India. Haldia has played the role of a catalyst in emergence of more than 500 downstream processing industries in West Bengal with a capacity to process more than 3,50,000 TPA of polymers, among which are polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
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