Steel Min submits HSCL's restructuring plan to CCEA

New Delhi : Steel Ministry today submitted Kolkata-based Hindustan Steel Works Construction's (HSCL) Rs 1,440 crore financial restructuring plan before the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA). "The note has been submitted for CCEA considerations today. It was already approved by different ministries," a source in the ministry told PTI.

The restructuring plan of the state-run firm, which is in the business of construction of steel plant and building of infrastructure, including dams, bridges, roads and others, has already been cleared by the Finance Ministry. Post-restructuring, the paid-up share capital of the firm would rise to Rs 700 crore from Rs 171 crore now, he said. The turnover of the company, which is sitting on a Rs 2,043 crore order book and has emerged L1 bidder for an additional Rs 1,320 crore order, is also expected to go up to Rs 2,400 crore by 2020 from Rs 1,000 crore recorded in the last fiscal, following the restructuring.