Expansion of financial products needed to push infra development: FM

19 Jun 2013 Evaluate

To give a thrust to investment in infrastructure sector and to attain GDP growth rate of 8%, Finance Minister P Chidambaram has stated that development of infrastructure and expansion of financial products are crucial to the country achieving 8% growth. After launching $1 billion IDF scheme of IIFCL, Chidambaram said, ‘there is an immense need for financial products such as Infrastructure Debt Funds (IDFs), Takeout Finance and Credit Enhancement scheme to fill the financial gap in the infrastructure sector.’

The Finance Minister has further said that for IDFs, we should try to mobilize resources from insurance and pension sectors as these funds are available for long term horizon. Moreover, the finance minister also handed over in-principle approval letters issued by IIFCL Asset Management Company (IAMCL) to one power project in Jharkhand and one rural water project in Andhra Pradesh. Both the projects are in operational phase. 

The IDF scheme will mainly undertake investment in debt securities or securitized debt instruments of infrastructure companies, infrastructure capital companies or infrastructure projects, SPV, bank loans etc. Further, the investment objective is capital appreciation and trading on the stock exchange, aimed at development of bond market in the country.

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