The company has invited bids for the issue from investors and bankers on Tuesday, they said. The issue also has a greenshoe option to retain an additional subscription of 1.25 billion rupees.
The bonds are provisionally rated AA+ by Acuite Ratings. In January, the company had raised 850 million rupees through bonds maturing in seven years at an annual coupon of 8.90%.
($1 = 82.3500 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Bhakti Tambe; Editing by Sohini Goswami)
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