No second round of debt restructuring for Kingfisher

Banks have no plans to carry out a second round of debt restructuring of the ailing Kingfisher Airlines which has an outstanding loan of around Rs 6,419 crore, Parliament was informed today.

"State Bank of India, leader of the consortium [of 11 lenders to Kingfisher], has stated that at present, there is no plan," Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena said in a written reply in Lok Sabha.

He was replying to a question on whether lenders are planning to carry out a second round of restructuring of loans to help Kingfisher.

The minister further said the airline has a total outstanding loan liability of Rs 6,419.60 crore, which include Rs 9,730.37 crore provided to Kingfisher for non-fund based activities.

The minister said, SBI has an exposure of Rs 1,457.78 crore, followed by IDBI Bank (Rs 727.63 crore), Punjab National Bank (Rs 710.33 crore), Bank of India (Rs 575.27 crore) and Bank of Baroda (Rs 537.51).

The other lenders which have provided funds to the airlines include ICICI Bank, Central Bank of India, United Bank of India, UCO Bank, and Corporation Bank.

SBI has already exceeded the exposure limit of Rs 1,436.1 crore in Kingfisher.

Of the total outstanding of Rs 6,419.60 crore, Rs 750.10 crore has been converted into cumulative redeemable preference shares and Rs 553.10 crore as non-convertible cumulative redeemable preference shares to be redeemed after 12 years.

Meena further said that Kingfisher is scheduled to start repaying loans to SBI from September 2012. "Servicing of interest is being done with some delay," he added.