Govt amends FEMA rules to allow 20 pc FDI in LIC


PTI, Apr 17, 2022, 11:37 AM IST

New Delhi: The government has amended rules of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), paving the way for up to 20 percent foreign direct investment in the insurance behemoth LIC.

The government is planning to dilute its stake in LIC through the Initial Public Offering (IPO). LIC in February had filed the Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) before the markets regulator Sebi for the IPO.

Last month, Sebi gave approval to the draft papers and the insurer is in the process of filing a request for a proposal with changes.

Following the Cabinet’s approval, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) on March 14 had amended the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy to facilitate overseas investment in LIC ahead of the mega public offer.

FEMA notification was required to operationalize the provisions DPIIT issued through a press note, including FDI policy changes that will allow large foreign portfolio investors to subscribe to shares of LIC.

”These rules may be called the Foreign Exchange Management (Non-debt Instruments) (Amendment) Rules, 2022,” said a gazette notification issued recently.

The notification has inserted a paragraph in the existing policy, allowing up to 20 percent FDI in LIC through the automatic route.

Since the foreign inflows’ ceiling for public sector banks is 20 percent under the government approval route as per the present FDI policy, it has been decided to allow foreign investment of up to 20 percent in LIC and other such corporate bodies.

”Foreign investment in LIC shall be subject to the provisions of the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956, (LIC Act) as amended from time to time and such provisions of the Insurance Act, 1938, as amended from time to time, as are applicable to LIC,” it said.

Setting the stage for the country’s biggest-ever public offering, Sebi has approved the draft prospectus for the sale of a 5 percent stake by the government for an estimated Rs 63,000 crore.

According to the draft paper, LIC’s embedded value, a measure of the consolidated shareholders’ value in an insurance company, has been pegged at about Rs 5.4 lakh crore as of September 30, 2021, by international actuarial firm Milliman Advisors.

Although the DRHP does not disclose the market valuation of LIC, as per industry standards it would be about three times the embedded value of around Rs 16 lakh crore.

The LIC public issue is expected to be the biggest IPO in the history of the Indian stock market. Once listed, LIC’s market valuation will be comparable to top companies like RIL and TCS.

So far, the amount mobilized from the IPO of Paytm in 2021 was the largest ever at Rs 18,300 crore, followed by Coal India (2010) at nearly Rs 15,500 crore and Reliance Power (2008) at Rs 11,700 crore.

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