The company has undertaken capital expenditure worth Rs 24,000 crore to expand crude steel capacity by 66 percent to 15.9mt
JSPL sales also registered a growth of 8 per cent at 2.07 Million Tonnes (MT) in the January-March period, according to a statement.
JSPL Managing Director V R Sharma said the company has reduced its overall debt from a peak of Rs 46,000 crore to below Rs 11,000 crore, and now it aims to become net debt-free in the upcoming financial year.
JSPL’s plan was to sell 96.43% in its power business, Jindal Power Ltd (JPL), to a privately held company by its promoter Naveen Jindal. The deal value of Rs 3,015 crore has raised shareholder protests. Sources now say the company will come out with a new structure for shareholder approval.
In the coal block auction held earlier, Balco, part of Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Ltd, had emerged as the highest bidder for Gare Palma IV/1.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under pressure to promote Indian industry to create jobs for millions of people ahead of the South Asian country's next general election in 2019.
This was the 36th FIR filed by the agency in 2014 in connection with its probe into coal blocks allocation.
Nineteen of 20 states have given a cold shoulder to CBI's request for sanction to start probe into the alleged corruption in the coal blocks allocation done through the joint venture route.
Sharmila Joshi, head of equity at Peerless Securities advised holding Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL). "Power capacity will double this fiscal itself, so that should be a big driver for JSPL going ahead," she said.
Monal Desai of Sunidhi Securities is of the view that one can buy JSPL with a target of Rs 394.