Shares of Housing & City Improvement Company (HUDCO) fell over 4 % in intraday buying and selling on Friday, April 4, after the corporate’s board accredited a major fundraising plan and a rise in its borrowing restrict. The inventory decline displays investor considerations over the corporate’s rising debt ranges, regardless of the potential for progress and enlargement by way of these monetary measures.
In a regulatory submitting, HUDCO said that its board, in a gathering held on April 4, 2025, accredited an annual useful resource plan and borrowing program of as much as ₹65,000 crore for the monetary yr 2025-26. The precise funds raised will rely upon the corporate’s necessities all year long.
Moreover, the board accredited a rise in HUDCO’s total borrowing restrict from ₹1,50,000 crore to ₹2,50,000 crore. This enlargement within the borrowing capability is topic to shareholder approval beneath Part 180(1)(c) of the Corporations Act, 2013.
“Pursuant to Regulation 30 of SEBI (Itemizing Obligations and Disclosure Necessities) Rules, 2015, that is to tell that the Board of Administrators, of their assembly held on 4thApril, 2025 i.e., inter-alia thought-about and accredited:
i. Annual Useful resource plan/ Borrowing programme (elevating of funds) as much as a most quantity of Rs.65,000 Crore throughout the monetary yr 2025-26, relying upon precise funds requirement; and
ii. Improve in total borrowing restrict to Rs.2,50,000 Crore from present restrict of Rs.1,50,000 Crore as earlier accredited by shareholders u/s 180(1)(c) of the Corporations Act, 2013, topic to the approval of similar by Shareholders,” it stated in a regulatory submitting.