Adani Group isn’t seeking to refinance debt or inject capital, its finance chief said on the sidelines of an investor roadshow aimed at rebuilding confidence in the crisis-ridden Indian conglomerate. When asked “Are you looking to refinance any debt?†on the sidelines of the Hong Kong roadshow Tuesday, Singh said: “No, we don’t have anything major at all.â€
Adani Green Energy also plans to refinance its 2024 bonds via a $800 million, three-year credit line, said the sources, who declined to be named as they were not authorised to speak to the media. Those plans were presented by the Adani management to the group's bondholders in Hong Kong on Tuesday.
AEL has rated loans of ₹13,900 crore. They comprise fund-based and non-fund-based loans, as per a Care Rating report released in mid-October last year. It also has working capital loans of nearly ₹2,000 crore, most of which comprise commercial paper (CP), a lender said.
Top companies like Bharti Airtel, Vedanta, Larsen & Toubro, Tata Steel, Siemens, Genpact and Tech Mahindra are taking more steps to increase diversity ratios, including recruiting women from campuses by targeting women-only colleges or colleges with a higher percentage of women, women leadership programmes, offering remote working options and flexibility.
​​ In-house platforms/institutes, facilitated trainings, gamification, group and individual coaching, self-paced learning offerings, tie-ups with skilling platforms and leading engineering colleges and B-schools are among the many options on offer to upskill and reskill employees in areas spanning everything from digital and sustainability to people management, and leadership.
Companies are continuously tapping new talent groups, including stay-at-home women, transgender persons, people with disabilities etc. Also, the demographic of the typical organisation is fast changing with a high proportion of young and mobile people.
Seaweed has been seeing a surge of interest in the US and Europe. However, the seaweed economy in India never really scaled up although it has been cultivated here for years. Zerocircle is one of the small but growing number of companies hoping to promote the use of seaweed in India and, through that, solve some of the bigger questions around sustainability.
Christian Klein said, "The country (India) has high aspirations for sustainability and wants to use technology to achieve that, to decarbonize supply chains, to move to the circular economy, to produce green hydrogen. And that goes hand in hand with technology. And India has a very strong agenda for both topics."