External Commercial Borrowings (ECB) Policy

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.... Category - I (AD Category - I) banks is invited to the A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 46 dated January 2, 2009 relating to External Commercial Borrowings (ECB). 2. On a review, it has been decided to modify some aspects of the ECB policy as indicated below: (i) ECB for Integrated Township As per the extant policy, corporates, engaged in the development of integrated township, as defined ....

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....owers in the infrastructure sector under the Approval route, subject, inter-alia, to the condition that the direct lending portfolio of these lenders vis-à-vis their total ECB lending to NBFCs, at any point of time, should not be less than 3:1. It has now been decided to dispense with this condition with effect from July 1, 2009.  The proposals will, however, continue to be examined by the R....

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....the SEZ. However, ECB shall not be permissible for development of integrated township and commercial real estate within the SEZ. (iv) Corporates under Investigation Currently, the ECB policy is not explicit about accessing of ECB by the corporates, which have violated the extant ECB policy and are under investigation by the Reserve Bank and / or Directorate of Enforcement. It is clarified th....