INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The company has been facing severe financial and operational issues
| File Photo: MOIL2 min read Last Updated : Sep 30 2024 | 5:04 PM IST
The government has assigned the additional charge of CMD RINL to
Ajit Kumar Saxena, a regulatory filing said on Monday.
Saxena is currently the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of MOIL, a PSU under
the Ministry of Steel.Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp
"We have received an order...dated 29.09.2024 from Ministry of Steel
assigning the additional charge of the post of CMD, RINL to Ajit Kumar Saxena, CMD, MOIL Ltd with immediate effect...," MOIL said in the
filing.
As per sources, Atul Bhatt the CMD of RINL is on personal leave from September 9 till November 30, which is also the date of his
It owns and operates a 7.5 million tonne plant at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
The company has been facing severe financial and
operational issues.
According to a steel ministry document, RINL is in serious financial trouble
It has been running at minimal capacity and facing continuous losses
The overall dues of RINL have gone above Rs 35,000 crore and it is at the risk of being classified as a non-performing asset by banks.
The
document said that the ministry is taking steps to keep RINL as a 'going concern' in consultation with the finance ministry.
RINL has
three blast furnaces (BF) of 2.5 MT each, of which only BF no
2 is in operation.(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the
content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)First Published: Sep 30 2024 | 5:04 PMIST
