Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) will take a decision on the two Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) proposals which were referred to it for consideration by Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). The two proposals include Sistema Shyam involving an FDI of Rs 10,000 crore and IIFL Holdings's Rs 3201.5 crore. The total FDI inflow of Rs 14,769.41 crore in the cases recommended for approval out of which two proposals with a total FDI of Rs 13,201.5 crore have been recommended for consideration of the CCEA.
The proposal of Sistema Shyam worth about Rs 10,000 crore requires an approval for conversion of non-convertible redeemable preference shares to optionally convertible redeemable preference shares and thereafter equity shares thereby increasing the foreign equity from 73.95 percent to 85.13 percent, directly in Sistema Shyam TeleServices and indirectly in Shyam Internet Services. The proposal entails an investment worth Rs 10,000 crore of which Rs 9,433.5 crore has already been brought in. IIFL Holdings proposal, worth about Rs 3201.5 crore, is seeking approval for increasing the foreign equity from 52.29 percent to 100 percent by way of issuing shares to FIIs.
Earlier, the government had approved 18 foreign direct investment (FDI) proposals amounting Rs 5,000 crore including Aegon Religare Life Insurance and Aditya Birla Nuvo on the recommendation of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) which is headed by Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das.
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