In order to enable investors to co-invest in the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), the government may tweak the investment norms in this sovereign wealth fund, as well as in the individual projects. Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das has said that the norms would be tweaked within the broad framework of the investment to take into account suggestions from the domestic and overseas investors.
Das said that the government was earlier considering NIIF to be the mother fund under which there would be several sub-funds, but after interaction with investors from within and abroad we realised that there is equal amount of interest, perhaps greater interest to co-invest in individual projects. He further added that “we found that the investment pattern of NIIF, which we had in mind originally, required some amount of tweaking within the broad framework.”
The Economic Affairs Secretary also stated that the government is now in discussion with various investors and they will co invest in individual infrastructure projects and also invest in the mother fund. He further said that while co-investment in individual projects is important, it is also important that the investors come into the mother fund because there government equity will be only 49 per cent.
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