A high powered government panel has now proposed a solution recommending a multi-pronged strategy to bypass dependence on hard currencies like the euro or the dollar.
The company had reported a net loss of Rs 257 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal.
Forex loans raised by infrastructure and manufacturing companies can be used to retire rupee loans. Now, hotel companies too could do the same. This facility of replacing expensive rupee loans with cheap foreign exchange loans was extended to hotel companies as well.
The government on Friday said telecom companies that win in the upcoming 2G spectrum auction will be allowed to raise cheap loans from overseas markets in the form the external commercial borrowings (ECBs).