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Diversified natural resources company Vedanta Ltd has filed the demerger scheme with the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) after receiving a nod from lenders and is hopeful of completing the process by the end of this fiscal, a senior company official said on Tuesday. The proposed demerger will create independent companies housing aluminium, oil and gas, power, steel and ferrous materials, and base metals businesses. The existing zinc and new incubated businesses will remain under Vedanta Ltd. Speaking with PTI, Vedanta's CFO Ajay Goel said, "There is a very significant development ( on demerger). We have secured all approvals be it secured lenders, BSE, NSE, and SEBI. We have filed the scheme on Monday with NCLT and filing the demerger scheme with NCLT practically is the last step." Now the proposed demerger, he said, will be a reality "very soon". "Our last commitment of demerger getting closed is by the end of this fiscal and we are very much on track," he explained. A few d
Vedanta Ltd board on Thursday approved rasing of Rs 2,500 crore through issuance of non-convertible debentures on private placement basis. A decision in this regard was taken at the meeting of Committee of Directors of the company, Vedanta Ltd said in a regulatory filing. "The Committee of Directors on Thursday, considered and approved for raising, on a private placement basis, up to 2,50,000 secured, unrated, unlisted, redeemable, non convertible debentures of face value Rs 1,00,000 each aggregating upto Rs 2,500 crore in one or more tranche(s)," the filing said. A subsidiary of Vedanta Resources Ltd, Vedanta Ltd has operations in oil and gas, zinc, lead, silver, copper, iron ore, steel, and aluminium and power across India, South Africa and Namibia.