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Union Finance Minister had announced in #Budget2021 speech that Govt. wishes to complete disinvestment of Air India in FY 2021-22

-@SecyDIPAM, Shri Tuhin Kanta Pandey

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Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs had instituted Air India Specific Alternate Mechanism which has identified the winning bidder for the national airline

-@SecyDIPAM

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Air India Specific Alternate Mechanism consists of HomeMinister, Finance Minister, Commerce and Industry Minister and Civil Aviation Minister

-@SecyDIPAM

@SecyDIPAM explains the process of disinvestment of @airindiain, which began in July 2017

No interest for first bid

7 bidders for second round, out of which 5 disqualified

Financial bids received from two qualified bidders, on Sep 15 2021

Multi-layered decision making has been adopted for the @airindiain disinvestment process, comprising Air India Specific Alternate Mechanism chaired by Union Home Minister

Process has been transparent, competitive, supported by professional advice

-@SecyDIPAM

Time extensions for submitting EoIs were allowed in wake of #Covid_19

Bidding construct has been revised from equity basis to Enterprise Value

-@SecyDIPAM

Certain identified current and non-current liabilities and assets to be matched with current and non-current assets

Excess to be taken out to Air India Asset Holding Company (AIAHL), a GoI SPV, to which some of the assets and liabilities are being transferred

-@SecyDIPAM

Interest of employees including retired employees have been taken care of, informs @SecyDIPAM

'Bidders would now bid on the total consideration of equity and debt, with minimum cash equal to 15% of quoted Enterprise Value and maximum retained debt being 85% of quoted EV'

.@SecyDIPAM explains stages of the RFP process for disinvestment

'Final Agreed form Share Purchase Agreement submitted along with bid on Sep 15, 2021, meaning no negotiation of terms & conditions after bid submission, bidders had agreed to bid terms and conditions prior to this'

Valuation of Enterprise Value was done using business valuation and asset valuation methods, reserve price was set before opening sealed financial bids, to ensure complete independence between bidding and fixation of reserve price

-@SecyDIPAM

After ensuring technical qualification of bids for disinvestment of Air India, the two financial bids were opened by Inter Ministerial Group in presence of bidders on Sep 29, 2021

Both bids well above reserve price, H1 bid approved on Oct 4, 2021

-@SecyDIPAM

Talace Pvt. Ltd., the SPV of Tata Sons, is the winning bidder for Air India, at a bid value of Rs. 18,000 crore, announces @SecyDIPAM '

@TataCompanies

Non-core assets such as land and building, valued at Rs. 14,718 crore, are being transferred to Govt. of India's AIAHL

-@SecyDIPAM

#AirIndia

Letter of Intent to be issued, Share Purchase Agreement with successful bidder to be signed

Precedent conditions to be completed, financial statements on long stop date to be prepared and agreed

Transaction to be closed by Dec 2021

-@SecyDIPAM

Enterprise Value construct was important since Air India had excessive debt due to continuous losses

how much of the amount to be hived off was to be determined through the market in this EV process rather than us taking an apriori view of the debt

-@SecyDIPAM

Combined debt of Air India and AIXL as on March 31, 2021 - ₹ 46,239 cr.

Total debt as on Aug 31, 21 - ₹ 61,562 cr.

Debt to be taken over by successful bidder - ₹ 15,300 cr.

Remaining debt- ₹ 46,262 cr. will go to AIAHL

@SecyDIPAM explains debt position after disinvestment

Govt. has put in ₹ 54,584 crore as cash support and ₹ 55,692 crore as guarantee support, since 2009-10

A total government support of ₹ 1,10,276 crore since 2009-10

Hence, the continuous losses borne by Air India have been funded largely by govt.-guaranteed debt

-@SecyDIPAM

The bid places no restrcition on the successful bidder, in going ahead with mergers and acquisitions

The restriction is that during the equity lock-in period, ownership has to remain with the successful bidder

-@SecyDIPAM

Debt of ₹ 46,262 cr. to Air India Asset Holding Company

Assets worth ₹ 14,718 cr. to be taken over by AIAHL

Equity- Rs. 2,700 cr.

Considering transfer of excess assets and liabilities, net impact to govt. will be ₹ 44,679 cr. which will go to AIAHL

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Disinvestment of #AirIndia

Winning bidder will retain all employees, no employee to be retrenched for the first one year

For the second year, if anybody is to be retrenched or removed, they will be offered VRS

-@SecyDIPAM

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Employees will be provided gratuity and Provident Fund benefits, post-retirement medical benefits to be provided by the govt.

-@SecyDIPAM

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There are eight logos under Air India brand, these logos will go to the successful bidder, these cannot be transferred to anyone else for five years

After five years, the logos can be transferred

but to only Indian persons (legal persons), not to any foreign entity

-@SecyDIPAM

Government Approves #AirIndia Disinvestment

Tata Sons' SPV- Talace Pvt Ltd wins bid for Air India

@TataCompanies

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