In a booster to the cash-strapped Modi government, the Union Cabinet has approved the largest ever telecom spectrum auction that is targeted to fetch the exchequer at least Rs 64,840 crore from its sale in February, of which Rs 16,000 crore is expected to be realized in the current financial year. i.e. FY15. Notably, the reserve price is much higher than the target of Rs 43,065 crore set in the Union Budget for 2014-15.
The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal to auction 800 MHz, 900 MHz spectrum, with a reserve price of Rs 3,646 crore, Rs 3,980 crore Per Mhz respectively on pan India basis, excluding Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkatta, and J&K, while it has fixed the reserve price of Rs 2,191 crore pan-India (excluding Maharashtra and West Bengal) in 1,800 MHz band. Besides, the government has also unveiled its intent to put 2,100 Mhz to simultaneous auction, which may be announced along with auction of other bands. However, the details of this auction would be announced by the Cabinet on a later date.
As per the rules laid down by the Union Cabinet, the successful bidders will have two option of payments, which would include, full upfront payment that needs to be paid with 10 days of declaration of final price or pre-payment of one or more annual installments/ deferred payments, which would allow an upfront payment of 33% in the case of 1800 Mhz band and 25% in case of 900 Mhz and 800 Mhz of the final bid amount within 10 days of declaration of successful bidder and final price. The cabinet has permitted a moratorium of two years for payment of balance amount of one-time charges for the spectrum, which would be recovered in 10 equal annual installments.
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