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India Infr. Fund The India Infrastructure Fund (IIF or the Fund) is being created as a closed-end fund that will invest in a diversified portfolio of project equity investments in the Indian infrastructure sector.    IIF will invest in projects in one or more of the following sectors in India:  -   Energy and Utilities: electricity generation, electricity transmission and distribution networks, oil and gas pipelines, oil and gas import  terminals, storage and processing facilities;  -    Transport Infrastructure: roads, railways, ports, airports and logistics centers; -    Telecommunications Infrastructure: broadcast and mobile towers, terrestrial networks, satellite systems and submarine cables; -    Other Infrastructure: water supply and treatment, waste collection and treatment, healthcare facilities, schools and correctional facilities. The project will address a key constraint for developers of private or public-private partnership infrastructure projects in India  the availability of equity capital.  Given the large funding requirements and the long gestation periods of infrastructure projects, long term equity remains scarce for such projects.    Infrastructure is central to economic growth, improved living standards, and broader development.  Through its investments, the Fund will help reduce bottlenecks in the power, water, airport, road, port, and rail sectors in India.  This is expected to have an impact on numerous stakeholder groups.  The project will free public sector capital for investments in other priority sectors, thereby helping the central and local governments.  Residents will benefit from improved and more competitive services in all of these sectors.  Services such as water, sanitation, and electricity improve health and social welfare, and they are essential for modern industry and commerce.  Companies cannot compete when they are burdened with high-cost, unreliable, or low-quality infrastructure.  The project will therefore benefit local companies, customers and suppliers, as well as help exporters with better access to foreign markets and importers with more efficient delivery of production import through improved transport infrastructure.   The Fund is also expected to impose market discipline on investee projects, leading to better alignment with demand for infrastructure services, more efficient management, and lower operating and maintenance costs.    If the Fund is listed, it would be the first listing of a dedicated infrastructure fund in India.  This would provide additional capital market resources to a much needed sector.
Lifetree Project Lifetree Convergence Limited (Lifetree or the company) provides advanced Billing and Business support software solutions to telecommunications carriers across the globe.  The company is headquartered in New Delhi, with its software development centers in Bangalore. Lifetree provides telecom carriers with end-to-end Billing, Business Support Systems and Customer Relationship Management functionality across:   - wireline, wireless and IP; - pre-paid and post-paid customers; - voice, data and content services.   Add-on products include a web based self care portals for customers, dealers and call centre users, an electronic bill presentment solution and an interconnect solution for telecom operators. The company also provides value added services for the aggregation and distribution of content-based services across devices. Lifetree has also launched a Service Oriented Architecture based portal product designed to integrate access to disparate applications.   The company has completed over 40 installations in the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa region and is poised to leverage this capability in developed markets. IFC proposes to invest in Lifetree for acquisitions and expansion capital as the company seeks to scale operations. An investment in Lifetree would:   - support a promising technology product company in India, - provide employment opportunities in leading edge technology development, - improve technical skills of local engineers,  - demonstrate the ability to produce world class technology companies in India, and  - provide support to a critical software provider to existing IFC customers in emerging markets, such as MTN and Celtel.   An investment at this stage will essentially allow a local industry leader to expand its range of products and services to measure with international peers, while benefiting the local population through job creation and skill development.
Zenex Animal Health India Private Limited The proposed IFC investment involves the purchase of equity shares of Zenex Animal Health India Private Limited (Zenex or the Company) from Multiples Private Equity Fund III (Multiples).  Zenex commenced its business with the acquisition of the animal health business of Zydus Animal Health and Investments Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cadila Healthcare Limited, which focused on the development, marketing and sale of drugs, vaccines and feed supplements for livestock, poultry, companion, and other animals, for markets in India and certain other countries. This has been funded by equity from investors including Multiples and with debt.  Zenex is involved in the manufacturing, marketing, and sale of animal health products for the livestock and poultry segment. Project-level impact: The growth of the Company will increase the production of quality pharmaceuticals for livestock and poultry, resulting in better yields and increased income for farmers. Market-level impact: The Project and Companys growth will enable changes to existing markets that deliver sustainable development impact by promoting competitiveness through demonstration, replication, and competition.
Equitas ECB The proposed project envisages a senior debt investment in Equitas Micro Finance Private Limited (Equitas Micro Finance or the Company), which is a leading Microfinance Institution (MFI) in India. Equitas Micro Finance has a borrower base of 1.3 million across 5 states and 1 union territory including the Low Income States of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh with a loan portfolio of US$215 million equivalent  Equitas Micro Finance is widely acknowledged for following best practices in responsible financing and corporate governance.  Equitas Micro Finance also has a strong focus on using technology and process innovation to increase operational efficiency through implementation of a scalable system for IT infrastructure.   The proposed investment would manifest IFCs support for an existing portfolio investee and would be amongst the first few ECB transactions in the microfinance space and is particularly important as a source of long tenor funding. 1.	Access to Microfinance by expanding the outreach of Equitas in several of the poorer states in India, where the Company would scale up in the next few years.  2.	Promoting a more balanced growth of microfinance by supporting an institution that has been a front-runner in adopting technology, is amongst the pioneers in best practices on responsible financing, takes a very active part in sector development and is working to provide varied financial services to customer segments which have limited access to formal sources of finance.
Equitas Project The proposed project envisages an equity investment in Equitas Holdings Private Limited (Equitas or the Company) which is the holding company for a leading microfinance institution, Singhivi Investment and Finance Private Limited (Equitas Microfinance) headquartered in Chennai, India and amongst the top 10 MFIs in India. Equitas Microfinance has a borrower base of 1.2 million across 5 states and 1 union territory including the Low Income States of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.  Equitas has also started recently businesses in the areas of affordable housing (Equitas Housing Finance Private Limited) and used commercial vehicle financing (Equitas Finance Private Limited) to cater to the relatively unbanked population in these financial services segments with a view towards financial inclusion.   Equitas is widely acknowledged for following best practices in responsible financing and corporate governance.  Equitas also has a strong focus on using technology and process innovation to increase operational efficiency through implementation of a scalable system for IT infrastructure.   The proposed project intends to help Equitas fund its geographical expansion, scale up new businesses and meet its regulatory capital adequacy requirements for the next 3-5 years 1.	Access to Microfinance by expanding the outreach of Equitas in several of the poorer states in India, where the Company would scale up in the next few years.  2.	Access to Finance for Affordable Housing and Used Commercial Vehicle Financing to people engaged in the informal sector for affordable housing and used commercial vehicle financing, several of whom are currently underserved by the formal banking system.   Clients who avail finance for purchase of second hand commercial vehicles would be able to open up a livelihood opportunity for themselves and their families and turn from being a driver to an owner.  The housing finance company helps people who run businesses in the informal sector to plan for and buy a house at current prices.  Typically such people are almost fully excluded from the formal financial sector. 3.	Promoting a more balanced growth of microfinance by supporting an institution that has been a front-runner in adopting technology, is amongst the pioneers in best practices on responsible financing, takes a very active part in sector development and is working to provide varied financial services to customer segments which have limited access to formal sources of finance.
Kamani Oils Kamani Oil Industries Private Limited (the company) is an edible oil refinery based in Mumbai, India. It was demerged from Chawla Brothers Private Limited in April 2008 and as a result inherited the laters edible oil business, which has been operating for decades. The company produces various vegetable oils and fats for food industry use and consumers. The company has installed capacity of 225 tons per day (tpd) and plans to expand to 500 tpd by constructing a new plant in Khopoli, Khalapur District, Maharashtra. The project is expected to:   - increase government revenues through increased sales,  - employ some rural labors around the project site;  - benefit institutional clients as increased local supply tends to reduce their cost and improve logistics and avail more product variety;  - benefit suppliers as demand will increase; - finance a niche edible oil producer and ultimately help edible oil sector to grow more sophisticated and mature;  - enhance the competition and the private sector and deliver more value to customers; and  - deliver a positive net present value to financiers.
Mindspace Project The proposed IFC investment is a senior secured sustainability-linked loan of up to INR 12,000 million (US$150 million equivalent) through subscription to non-convertible listed debt securities/ debentures to be issued by Mindspace Business Parks REIT (Mindspace or the MREIT).  MREIT is a AAA (local rating) rated Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) and is one of Indias largest Grade A office portfolios spanning 26.3 million square feet (msf) of (completed) leasable area across 5 integrated business parks and 5 independent office buildings. It has a presence across the key business districts of Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune and Chennai.   K Raheja Corp Investment Managers Pvt. Ltd. has been appointed as the Manager to Mindspace REIT. By incentivizing MREIT to reduce GHG emissions and make its office properties more energy efficient, the Project will contribute to reducing the impact of climate change. The Project will also demonstrate and promote greater sustainability in the real estate sector in India.
DCM Sugar Project DCM Shriram Limited (DCM or the Company) is one of Indias leading business conglomerates with its main business lines as follows: (i) Agribusiness (fertilizer, seeds, sugar and trading of agri inputs); and (ii) Chloro-Vinyl (caustic soda, chlorine & polyvinyl chloride (PVC)).     The proposed transaction is an A-Loan of US$35 million by IFC to support (a) a brownfield expansion of its existing sugar plant at Hariawan (located in Hardoi district in Uttar Pradesh) by an incremental 5000 tons of cane per day (TCD); (b) an installation of a 30 MW cogeneration power plant using bagasse as fuel in Hariawan; and (c) an expansion of its distillery capacity in Ajbapur. a.	Investment in Priority Region in India: The Company would be investing in Uttar Pradesh, one of the key low-income states in India. This would help channel further private sector investment into the state.
b.	Farmer Productivity Gains: the client will seek to (i) improve farmer income through purchase of higher quantity of cane  and (ii) create small scale / micro entrepreneurs who can facilitate productivity gains for the farmers 
c.    	Jobs: create about 150 additional jobs through the project. 
d.	Demonstration effect: The Project will further demonstrate best practices and cleaner production norms in the Indian sugar industry.
Punj Lloyd Corporate Finance Punj Lloyd Limited (PLL or the company) ranks among the largest engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies in India with operations spread across the regions of the Middle East, the Caspian, Africa, the Asia Pacific and South Asia. It undertakes construction work in four major business segments Oil & Gas (pipelines, tankages & process facilities), infrastructure projects (transportation, industrial and urban infrastructure), Power (captive power projects) and Telecom (broadband). It has to its credit the laying of 8,000 kilometers of pipelines for hydrocarbon service, construction of 6 million cubic meters of tanks and terminals, 11 refinery modernization and quality improvement projects and 18 highway projects representing over 1,200 km of roads.   The company has currently around 120 clients, with more than 180 projects in over 14 countries. Main clients include the largest Indian oil and gas companies, P. T. Caltex, Totalfina Elf, Petronas, Shell Corporation, Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation, Kvaerner Construction International Ltd., Bechtel, Snamprogetti, British Petroleum, LG Engineering and Construction and Skanska Cementation International Limited.  IFC is considering providing a loan to support PLLs corporate financing needs including capital expenditure requirements for equipment purchases. IFCs involvement in the project is expected to have a development impact in terms of:   - The companys expansion program will create new employment both directly and indirectly in India and abroad. A significant number of employees are also expected to be added in the supply stream and in ancillary activities. In addition, temporary employment will be provided to local labor in the host country during the construction phase of the new infrastructure. - Promoting the mobilization of corporate financing to the company, at a time when the Government has announced an aggressive plan to increase the proportion of infrastructure development through public private partnerships (PPPs) like BOT projects.  - The company has implemented HIV/AIDS policy and a HIV/AIDS awareness program, for its own employees, labor and contractors laborers. IFC and PLL will explore opportunities to work together towards deepening and expanding PLLs HIV/AIDS awareness initiative.
Techno Wind Simran Wind Project Private Limited ("Simran" or the "Company"), a privately owned entity, is a wind power company in India with installed capacity of 50.4 MW in the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The Company is now expanding its wind power capacity for a total new capacity of about 126.9 MW in the state of Tamil Nadu in Muthianpatti, Amdhapuram and Rasta. 1. Increase power generation from renewable sources: The Indian power market is characterized by significant supply deficit which is expected to continue in the medium term. Through this investment, IFC supports a company which will add approximately 200MW of renewable energy generation capacity over the next 2 years to meet the growing electricity demand in India. 2. Climate Change Impact: The Project helps mitigate negative climate change impacts by helping avoid GHG emissions. 3. Private Sector Development: 80% of power generation in India is still state-owned, with all major players focused on large thermal and hydro power projects. In line with its mandate, IFC''s participation in this Project will help stimulate private sector development within the renewable energy generation sector. 4. Employment Generation: The Project creates employment opportunities during project identification, construction and operation for local communities
Dewan LIS HFC The Project involves setting up a new housing finance company (NewCo) dedicated to providing housing finance to low and low-middle income households in the Low Income States (LIS) in India. The NewCo is being set up as a subsidiary of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd (DHFL), one of the established housing finance companies in India, in partnership with IFC and other private investors. The development impact of the Project is expected to be the following:

Access to financial services: NewCo will target low and low-middle income households, who typically have limited or no access to formal financial services and help improve access to housing finance for them.

Channelizing investment in developing states: The LIS targeted to be reached through this Project account for a substantial proportion of the housing demand shortfall in India. Despite this large demand, these states are highly under penetrated in terms of availability of affordable housing finance and this Project is expected to help meet that demand.
eGurucool.com The proposed investment would be IFCs first investment in a web-based education company.  The project consists of investing up to US$250,000 of equity in the second round of capitalization of Learning Universe Private Limited (LU), a company based in Delhi, India, which owns eGurucool.com, an education portal.  eGurucool aims to provide an on-line learning universe to students in India through an optimized integration of technology, content, and training.      Learning Universe aims at capitalizing on the ability of technology to deliver high quality education  at a lower cost via the use of the Internet.  The Internet has inherent advantages as it can reach widely scattered schools and students with quality content and input.  The interactivity of the medium and its ability to customize content make on-line education seem to be the way forward with two-way flow of information between students, teachers, counselors, schools, and others.      eGurucool.com has a comprehensive range of content.  This includes academic curricula for schools through tailored tutorials, tutoring and testing for competitive examinations, academic content for graduate studies, career counseling, and a 24-hour on-line help-line for students appearing for board exams.  The Company plans to host various school accounts in its server to create a large education network.  These schools would offer and share courses, tests and mock board exams on-line, as well as build up a community based on which students can obtain percentile rankings on their performance in various tests and exams.   While most schools will be charged for these services, eGurucool is seeking ways of accessing funds and free computer equipment to be installed in poorer schools in both metropolises and remote areas.  eGurucool is already offering some government schools with free websites and other services.  The Company is in discussion with state education boards to further expand such services to public schools.    Through its involvement in eGurucool.com, IFC would play a   pioneering role   by investing and assisting in the formation of a start-up web-based education company in India focused on using the Internet to improve both the access and content of education material.    For new companies like LU, IFCs presence in the project lends credibility, especially in its dealings with schools, state and national education boards.
AD Hydro Power Limited Allain Duhangan Power Company Limited (ADPCL or the project) will be jointly owned by Rajasthan Spinning & Weaving Mills Limited (RSWM), HEG Limited (HEG) and Malana Power Company Limited (MPCL), collectively, the sponsors.  The sponsors are part of the LNJ Bhilwara group of companies.  The project is to build, own and operate a 192MW run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plant (HPP) in the Kullu District of Himachal Pradesh (Northern India).  ADPCL will operate as a base-load plant during the summer and rainy seasons, and as a peaking plant in the winter and non-monsoon months.  The project will help meet peak and energy shortages by supplying competitively priced power to the Northern Region of India.  ADPCLs Detailed Project Report received Techno-Economic Clearance on August 20, 2002 from the Central Electricity Authority at an estimated completed cost of $192 million.
SChand Project S Chand and Company Private Limited (S Chand or the Company) is an Indian textbook publisher and provider of ancillary education services (such as digital materials).  In addition to continuing to expand its traditional textbook publishing business, S Chand plans to grow in the digital education segment. Also, the Company is actively exploring opportunities in other education sub-segments such as test prep (both online as well as coaching classes), pre-schools, and learning centers.   The proposed IFC investment consists of up to INR1,100 million in equity for a minority stake in S Chand  in order to finance the expansion of the Companys education publishing and services network in India as described above. Education materials are a key part of the overall education delivery system. The proposed project will contribute to increased access to affordable education materials (textbook and digital), including in second and third tier cities and Low Income States (LIS), thus contributing to improvement in learning outcomes, in addition to providing skilled jobs.  The Project is expected to have the following development impacts:  -	Increase the number of students reached by S Chand''s education materials including textbooks and digital learning systems. S Chand''s education materials reach students across the country, including in Tier-2/3 cities and LIS. -	Help improve quality and relevance of education materials:  S Chand has significant experience in publishing textbooks across primary, secondary and tertiary education. The Company''s textbooks provide structured educational content aligned to the curricular guidelines of the education boards in India, and the use of multimedia in the classroom will further serve as an effective supplement to regular instruction. -	Create additional jobs including skilled jobs in editorial, management, and marketing and sales teams including in second and third tier cities.