Power Finance Corporation Limited (NSE: PFC) Q2 2025 Earnings Call dated Nov. 08, 2024
Corporate Participants:
Parminder Chopra — Chairman & Managing Director
Unidentified Speaker
Analysts:
Shreepal Doshi — Analyst
Unidentified Participant
Shreya Shivani — Analyst
Manish Agarwalla — Analyst
Shweta Daptardar — Analyst
Jigar Jani — Analyst
Nikhil Nigania — Analyst
Sanket Chheda — Analyst
Presentation:
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to Power Finance Corporation Limited Q2 H1 FY ’25 Conference Call hosted by Equirus Securities. [Operator Instructions]
This conference call may contain forward-looking statements about the company, which are based on the beliefs, opinions and expectations of the company as on date of this call. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict.
I now hand the conference over to Mr. Shreepal Doshi. Thank you. And over to you sir.
Shreepal Doshi — Analyst
Thank you, Palak. Good evening, everyone. We have the management of Power Finance Corporation to discuss the Q2 H1 FY ’25 performance of the company and sector trends. The management is represented by Ms. Parminder Chopra, Chairman and Managing Director; Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Jha, Director, Projects; Mr. Manoj Sharma, Director, Commercial; and Mr. Sandeep Kumar, Director, Finance.
I would now hand over the call to Parminder ma’am for her opening remarks, post which we can open the floor for question and answer. Over to you, ma’am.
Parminder Chopra — Chairman & Managing Director
Thank you. Good evening and a warm welcome to all of you. We have declared our Q2 and H1 2025 results today, and I’m happy to connect with all our investors to discuss PFC’s quarterly and half yearly performance.
To start this, I would like to highlight some of the key milestones, which we have achieved this quarter. In this quarter, we have achieved the lowest gross NPA ratio of 2.71% since FY 2019, which was then at 9.39%. This has been achieved with our active resolution efforts since 2019. We have resolved around 55% of our stressed asset book. On resolution of these stressed assets, on an average, we have achieved recovery of more than 60%, which is among the highest in the infrastructure financing space.
Also, this quarter, I am happy to inform that PFC has become the first Indian PSU to successfully execute the largest ever foreign currency term loan deal of $1.265 billion. This is landmark transaction and was executed through a facility agreement with multiple banks based in IFSC GIFT City, Gandhinagar. In earlier calls, we had expressed our vision to expand PFC’s global footprint. And in this direction, we had shared that we were in the process of setting up a subsidiary in IFSC GIFT City. Gujarat.
I am happy to share that our subsidiary, PFC Infra Finance IFSC Limited, has received approval from the International Financial Service Center Authority to commence operations as a finance company in IFSC GIFT City. Gujarat. PFC Infra Finance IFSC Limited is the first finance company in IFSC dedicated to power and infrastructure lending. As earlier shared with you, the company will provide foreign currency loans to domestic as well as international power and infrastructure projects catering to both government and private players. This strategic move reinforces PFC’s position as a leader in the infrastructure financing space.
Now coming onto the numbers and if we talk of the consolidated performance, for H1 2025, the consolidated profit after tax stood at INR14,397 crores, a 14% increase year on year. The group loan asset book registered a growth of 13% on year-on-year basis. The consolidated loan asset book as on 30 of September 2024 stands at INR1,039,472 crores. On the asset quality, we continue to see a decreasing trend in the NPA level. The consolidated gross NPA has reached below 3% and is at 2.62% in first half of financial year 2025 compared to 3.40% in 2024 first half. The consolidated net NPA ratio for H1 ’25 is at 0.80% compared to 0.98% in H1 2024.
Now moving on to standalone performance. In Q2 2025, we have registered the highest ever quarterly net profit of INR4,370 crore, 14% increase on a year-on-year basis. For H1 ’25, the net profit stands at INR8,088 crore, an 18% increase from previous H1. This increase is mainly driven by healthy growth in the net interest income. The net interest income for H1 ’25 saw a 21% increase on a year-on-year basis and is at INR8,736 crores.
On the ratios front, we saw a positive trend over H1 ’24. The yield rose by around 19 bps from 9.92% in H1 ’24 to 10.11% in H1 ’25. The spread also improved from 2.5% — 2.51% in H1 ’24 to 2.61% in H1 ’25. The NIM also improved by 20 bps over H1 ’24. The NIM for H1 ’25 is at 3.57%. These ratios continue to remain within our guided range. Further, the cost of funds also continue to be within our expected range at 7.50%.
Also, our balance sheet remains exceptionally strong with a capital adequacy ratio of 24.38% and a net worth of INR85,924 crores. Continuing with our endeavor to share our success with the shareholders, this quarter also, the Board had declared interim dividend of INR3.5 per share. With this, the cumulative interim dividend for FY ’25 stands at INR6.75 per share.
Now moving on to asset quality. In line with the guidance shared in earlier calls, this quarter, the Lanco Amarkantak loan of INR2,376 crores has been resolved, pursuant to receipt of NCLT approval. We saw a provision reversal of around INR200 crore on resolution. In addition to above, two loans with a cumulative outstanding of INR313 crore have been moved out of Stage 3 that is the NPA category. One loan of INR304 crore has been technically written off. There was no impact of this on the P&L as 100% provisioning on this was maintained. The other loan has been upgraded from stage three on account of resolution.
With this, the gross NPA ratio has reduced by 96 basis points from 3.67% in H1 ’24 to 2.71% in H1 ’25. The net NPA ratio has come down from 1% in H1 ’24 to 0.72% in H1 ’25. The outstanding NPA book has reduced from INR16,487 crores in H1 ’24 to INR13,377 crores in H1 ’25 mainly due to resolution of Lanco Amarkantak loan. Now, we have 18 stressed projects of INR13,377 crore under Stage 3. Of these projects, six projects worth INR1,861 crores are being resolved outside NCLT. Out of this, two projects worth INR1,661 crore i.e. Shiga Energy with a loan of INR522 crore and TRN Energy with an outstanding loan amount of INR1,139 crore are in advanced stage of resolution.
On Shiga Energy loan, I would like to share that we have received approval from all the lenders. Subsequent to this, documentation and implementation of resolution will be undertaken. We expect the asset to be resolved by the end of the financial year. Currently, we have maintained sufficient provisioning of around 31%. Further, 12 projects worth INR11,515 crore are being resolved under NCLT. Out of which, seven projects of INR2,612 crore are under liquidation process, on which 100% provisioning has been made.
Further, five projects worth INR8,904 crore are at various stages of resolution in NCLT. Of these five projects, KSK Mahanadi project of INR3,300 crore has the highest outstanding amount. It’s a six into 600 megawatt partially commissioned project. The evaluation of the bids is underway and we expect more than 100% recovery against the project basis the current bids received. We have maintained around 55% provisioning on this project.
On Stage 3 assets, we continue to maintain a healthy provisioning of 74%. So now coming onto the loan asset growth this quarter. In last quarterly results, we had shared that PFC from 1 April had been implementing a BCG suggested transformation strategy for improving its business processes. This has resulted in subdued disbursement in Q1 ’25.
I am happy to share that we are progressing well on the transformation strategy. And from this quarter onwards, we are back on track on our disbursement trajectory. This quarter, we have disbursed INR46,663 crores. And cumulatively, our disbursement in H1 ’25 is at INR66,146 crores. With this, our loan asset growth registered a 10-year year-on-year increase. The loan asset book for H1 ’25 is at INR493,363 crores. I would like to share that in H1 ’25, we have sanctioned around INR160,000 crores worth of projects. So we have a healthy pipeline going forward also. For FY 2025, we expect to maintain similar growth levels as last financial year.
Thank you very much. And now, we are open for questions.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
Thank you very much. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] The first question is from the line of Raghu from Travis Capital [Phonetic]. Please go ahead.
Unidentified Participant
Am I audible?
Operator
Yes, sir.
Unidentified Participant
Yeah. Actually, my [Indecipherable] is regarding the Gujarat IFSC branch which you have opened. What is the projected growth we foresee from that over the next one, two years? And do we really have a plan to fund foreign companies or Indian companies in their abroad projects?
Parminder Chopra
See, we have just received the certificate for commencement of business. And being a financial company, so we are expecting that we will be disbursing loans to the various infrastructure sector, including power sector. There, we are intending to target domestic as well as the foreign companies. From IFSC, we can disburse only in foreign currency. And once we infuse capital more and then we — definitely, we raise debt as funds are the stock in trade for any NBFC. So we will start our operations. And we have a healthy pipeline, but it will all depend on the — basically, capital, what we are infusing that how much business we can take up. But otherwise, we have a lot of interest from various especially power sector developers in India for taking a foreign currency loan from our GIFT City branch.
Unidentified Participant
Just a follow-up to that. I understand there are some tax benefits if we do that. So generally, our profit margins and all will be much higher once the business there takes off. Is that something I can assume?
Parminder Chopra
See, there is a tax holiday of 10 years in IFSC GIFT City. So it’s very difficult to answer his question that how our profit margins are going to be there in the IFSC GIFT City subsidiary.
Unidentified Participant
Okay. Just the last question regarding the same thing. Can we expect maybe something like a 10% loan book at the end of 10 years? Do you foresee something like that from the — for the foreign borrowings?
Parminder Chopra
See, 10%, I couldn’t get. 10% of what?
Unidentified Participant
Of the total loan book of the standalone.
Parminder Chopra
Of the total loan book, see, PFC has a INR5 crore plus loan book. So it’s not a branch. It’s a separate independent subsidiary, which will be functioning. So even if we infuse — hypothetically, say, if we infuse INR1,000 crore as capital, so we can take there are always exposures which we need to take and the capital adequacy we need to maintain. So to start with, I think we have to go a bit slow till the time we build on the capital.
Unidentified Participant
Yeah. Thank you so much. I’ll join back in the queue.
Parminder Chopra
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you, sir. The next question is from the line of Shreya Shivani from CLSA. Please go ahead.
Shreya Shivani
Hi. Thank you for the opportunity. I have two questions. First is on the disbursal side. So while disbursals have picked up well after the glitch we saw in 1Q, I wanted to understand, have there been higher repayments in the renewable or the distribution sector because in spite of the disbursals picking up, the loan growth has been at 10% only. So that’s my first question.
And second, on the asset resolution. You mentioned about Lanco and two other companies — two other loans forming up to INR313 crores. But one of your peers has reported that there were some cash recovery from KSK project approved by NCLT. And that — doesn’t that flow in — didn’t that come for you guys and wouldn’t you see some negative credit costs from that as well? Those are my two questions. Thank you.
Parminder Chopra
Yeah, I would like to answer your second question first about some cash recovery from one of the stressed assets. We have not accepted that, and that has remained unallocated, and we are waiting for the final resolution to be achieved before we do allocation in the particular asset. So that is lying in the unallocated fund for PFC.
Shreya Shivani
Ma’am, what’s the reason for — I mean, I didn’t understand, what’s the reason for not accepting it?
Parminder Chopra
See, how much recovery is there, it will all depend on the final NCLT order. Once we receive the NCLT order, then only we can decide that how much is the principal to be adjusted and how much has to be accounted for as the interest. So till such — in our view, we can’t allocate it. Right now, it will not be prudent. So we have not done any provision reversal to that extent.
Shreya Shivani
Understood. Understood. Sure. And on the loan growth, ma’am?
Parminder Chopra
On the loan book, see, our recoveries were scheduled a bit higher in the first half as compared to in the second half. So that is the reason that you are not seeing the growth coming in the first half even despite we are having disbursed around INR64,000 crores.
Shreya Shivani
Got it. So the repayments — the bigger chunk of repayment happened in 1H?
Parminder Chopra
In first half. Yes.
Shreya Shivani
Got it. Got it. And ma’am, just a last follow-up question. On the conventional generation book, that book has been steady at the same level for the past couple of quarters. Are we seeing any movement on ground in terms of thermal capex, any sanctions that you could talk about?
Parminder Chopra
Yes, definitely, the focus of the government is to almost double the capacity by 2030. And for that, a major chunk, maybe around 84 gigawatt is going to be contributed from the thermal or national part. So this — if we talk of the first half of FY ’25, we have sanctioned around INR50,000 crores worth of loan to — from — to the conventional projects. So there is a movement, and it’s sticking.
Shreya Shivani
Sure. But it’s very difficult to give the timeline on disbursals for this INR50,000 crores. Is that fair to say?
Parminder Chopra
See, now you can very well understand that if the projects are being sanctioned at this stage, it always takes some time, even though I think the basic infrastructure because these are mostly the expansion projects. So basic infrastructure being always there. But in any case, it’s going to take another three to four years for disbursement to have completing this aspect.
Shreya Shivani
Got it, ma’am. Very useful. Thank you so much and all the best.
Parminder Chopra
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you, ma’am. The next question is from the line of Manish from PhillipCapital. Please go ahead.
Manish Agarwalla
Yeah. Thanks for the opportunity, ma’am. I have a couple of questions. I will start with can you quantify the Stage 2 assets? And when is the AP Discom account expected to be regularized?
Parminder Chopra
I couldn’t get your second question.
Manish Agarwalla
So it was about Andhra Pradesh Discom. We understand that it was a part of Stage 2 last quarter. So is that account regularized now, like overdues are repaid or still under Stage 2?
Parminder Chopra
Andhra Pradesh Utility, they have the regular now in payment. And the Stage 2, as you already know, that we always have in most of the — 80% of our book is from the state sector. And in the state, we have never experienced any of the NPAs coming out. There is slightly delays. So a few of the states, there are around that they may fall in one quarter in the Stage 2. But in the next quarter, they are upgraded to Stage 1. So this off and on is happening, and most of the Stage 2 projects are in the state sector.
Manish Agarwalla
Okay. Would you want to quantify this number right for the end of Q2 or…
Parminder Chopra
I think that it doesn’t make much relevance because it’s — these are all the government sector projects, so…
Manish Agarwalla
Sure. Ma’am, next question is on your full year disbursement target. So you have given some sense on loan growth. Can you give us the disbursement target for the full year?
Parminder Chopra
See, disbursement, I think it — why you want to have the disbursement target? It ultimately boils down to the growth. And we have given a very clear guidance that we are expected to have the similar level of growth as we have in the previous years, and it’s around 14%.
Manish Agarwalla
Got it. And finally, ma’am, on the renewable side, so [Technical Issues]
Parminder Chopra
Hello?
Operator
Hello, Mr. Manish?
Manish Agarwalla
[Indecipherable]
Operator
Hello, Mr. Manish. Are you there? As there is no response from the participant, we will move to the next question. [Operator Instructions] The next question is from the line of Shweta from Elara. Please go ahead.
Shweta Daptardar
Thank you, ma’am, for the opportunity. Ma’am, a couple of questions. Can you provide color on the infra portfolio, infra and other? Hello?
Parminder Chopra
Hello.
Shweta Daptardar
Yeah. Ma’am, I wanted to know if you can provide some color on this INR21,000-odd crores of infra plus other projects. Like what are these? Are these pure core infra-asset and allied? Can you just allude to these?
Parminder Chopra
See, infrastructure around — we have an outstanding book of around INR21,000 crores. And the major outstanding balances are one is the HPCL Rajasthan Refinery. And there are — we have also funded the manufacturing facilities to the various private sector developers. And there are small, small other infrastructure segments where the outstanding is around INR9,400 crores. That majorly consists of the various ports which are there.
Shweta Daptardar
Okay. Okay. Also, ma’am, just a follow-up question. So Q1, you mentioned that the due-diligence process is underway for Shapoorji Pallonji Group loan. And you also mentioned that the finalization will depend upon completion of the processes. So what is the color on that? And plus, are we lending to Vodafone Group?
Parminder Chopra
Shapoorji Pallonji, we have done a detailed due diligence, but somehow the Board, in its wisdom, has decided that since it’s a new sector for us, so it may not be — we may not take that high-end exposure. So finally, we have decided not to go ahead with the sanctioning of the loan for Shapoorji Pallonji. And the other loan, Vodafone, it was never in the consideration zone in PFC. I don’t know from where all these media news are coming from.
Shweta Daptardar
Okay, ma’am. Ma’am, my third question is can you provide sanction breakup across key segments?
Parminder Chopra
Sanction, in the generation, we have sanctioned — in this financial year, we have sanctioned around INR160,000 crores. Around 60% is in the generation. And distribution constitute to around 17%; infrastructure, 15%; transmission and other sectors, maybe around 8%.
Shweta Daptardar
Okay. Ma’am, last — one last question. So what is our incremental cost of funds? And the latest FCB borrowings, which you also mentioned in the opening remarks, what is the blended cost? Thank you so much.
Parminder Chopra
See, blended cost for the raisings made during the H1 is around 6.27% if we consider the foreign currency loan. And of that, the foreign currency borrowings without hedging if we consider is around 3%.
Shweta Daptardar
Okay. And ma’am, the incremental cost of borrowing?
Parminder Chopra
This is the incremental cost of borrowing I said. Otherwise, the weighted average cost of borrowing is around 7.5%.
Shweta Daptardar
Okay. Noted, ma’am. Thank you so much.
Operator
Thank you, ma’am. The next question is from the line of Alok Srinivas [Phonetic] from UBS. Please go ahead.
Unidentified Participant
Yeah. Hi. Thanks for taking my question. Ma’am, firstly, on assets under resolution. Could you help me with this number on KSK Mahanadi? 100% recovery is on principal or admitted claims in NCLT? Because I understand your admitted claims are higher versus the principal that is there. And also, ma’am, on Sinnar Thermal Power Plant, could you let us know what is the — what is happening over there? And what could be the likely recovery from that one?
Parminder Chopra
The recovery — hello?
Unidentified Participant
Yeah, ma’am.
Parminder Chopra
Yeah. Your first question was on KSK, right?
Unidentified Participant
Yeah, yeah.
Parminder Chopra
So in KSK, our recovery is more than the claim amount. And your second question was on?
Unidentified Speaker
Sinnar.
Unidentified Participant
Yeah.
Parminder Chopra
I couldn’t get your second question.
Unidentified Participant
Ma’am, on Sinnar, what kind of write-back are we expecting? And is there any timeline when that can happen?
Parminder Chopra
Sinnar, we have invited the bids and, at one stage, we have received the bids but the evaluation process is still on. So I think in a month or so, we may finalize the evaluation and then we will submit it to NCLT. After that — after the approval of NCLT only, that will able to adjust it.
Unidentified Participant
Okay. Okay. Got it. Ma’am, secondly, on infra projects, as you mentioned that for that particular project, it went to the Board and was decided not to do it. But ma’am, how does it work? Means, do all infra projects go to the Board? And if the Board — whatever Board is saying, is it mandatory for you to stick to what the Board is saying in these kind of projects?
Parminder Chopra
See, as per our internal delegation of power, infrastructure project sanctions will go to the Board. And in Board, a collective decision is always done for whatever proposal has been made by the concerned appraising unit, then it will go to the Board and Board takes a collective decision.
Unidentified Participant
Okay. And then it is mandatory then for the company to accept what the Board is saying, right?
Parminder Chopra
Yeah, definitely. Board is the competent authority to approve projects.
Unidentified Participant
Yeah, fair. Just one more question, ma’am, on the generation disbursement of around INR15,000 crore during this quarter, how much will be renewable?
Parminder Chopra
See — generation disbursement you are asking?
Unidentified Participant
Yeah. Because, ma’am, last — last quarter, I believe you had said 18% of the total was renewable.
Parminder Chopra
See, with respect to disbursement, this particular quarter, we have disbursed around 32% to the generation, out of which 13% is towards the renewable and 19% is towards the conventional project. This is about the Q2 2025.
Unidentified Participant
Okay. Got it. Got it, ma’am. Yeah. Thanks a lot, ma’am.
Operator
Thank you, sir. The next question is from the line of Abhijit from Motilal Oswal [Phonetic]. Please go ahead.
Unidentified Participant
Yeah. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for taking my questions. Ma’am, I had three questions. The first thing is, I mean, a clarification. You already said that for FY ’25, we are expecting loan growth to be similar to last year, which is around 14% levels. Again, I mean, I assume that this is in the context of first half where you were implementing a transformation program. Now that it is over and like you said in your opening remarks, we’re going to be embarking on a stronger disbursement trajectory from the second half onwards. From next year onwards, what is the loan growth that we have in mind?
Parminder Chopra
See, the loan growth, I think as our base is expanding, so any higher percentage of the loan growth may not be possible. And at this stage also, if you see the last year disbursements were to the tune of around INR135,000 crores, and that’s a huge sum. So it will all depend on how the economy grows and how the infrastructure sector picks up within the overall economic growth of the country. So as you are already aware that we are one of the largest lenders in the infrastructure and especially for the power sector, so our contribution is going to be accordingly.
Unidentified Participant
Got it, ma’am. And the second question I had was on margins. Given that — given our expectations that very soon, we might be heading into a declining interested environment in India as well. Can you just explain with regards to our assets and liabilities? When you look at assets, what proportion of your assets are fixed and what proportion of them are floating? Within floating, at what frequency they come up for repricing? Likewise on the liability side, what proportion of our liabilities are fixed and floating?
Parminder Chopra
See, on the liabilities front, we have around 27% as the floating rate liabilities and around 72%, 73% as the fixed rate liabilities. As you know that most of our borrowing is from the bond market, and bond market doesn’t have the depth and the appetite for the floating rate bonds. Whereas on the asset side, we have our — around 95% of the assets are on the floating rate. As in most of the asset lending, we have either a three-year reset clause or a one-year reset clause. So based on our overall cost of weighted average cost of borrowing, we do fix the lending rate and whatever is the current lending rate, our repricing of the assets is going to happen at those rates.
Unidentified Participant
Got it, ma’am. Just to clarify on that. When you say three-year reset clause or a one-year reset clause, those resets will depend on your internal card rate, which again is depicted by your cost of borrowings. Is that understanding correct?
Parminder Chopra
[Indecipherable] average cost of borrowing will be the basis for internal card rate?
Unidentified Participant
Yes, ma’am. So ma’am, I mean, from a sensitivity perspective, if there is a 25 basis cut in the repo rates, what will that translate into, the impact on our margins?
Parminder Chopra
See, it’s very difficult to say, one, because we are — our borrowing is not linked to the repo rate, and we have already seen that there has been a downward trend in the bond market. Whereas, if we see that on the bank loan book front, the loans which we have taken from the banks, banks marginal costs are either steady MCLR rate or is increasing. So there has not — we have not witnessed any decline in the bank rates, especially in the MCLR rate of the bigger. And there, we have around 30% of our borrowing from the bank. So how that mix is going to be there and how the market benchmarks are going to be affected with any cut in the repo, that we have to see before we work out any impact.
Unidentified Participant
Got it, ma’am. Thank you. And ma’am, just one last question. I mean, within your infrastructure and others book, if you could just share one data point with you that as part of the outstanding infrastructure and others book that you have, what is the mix of public and private? And likewise, if you look at 1H sanctions that you have given in the infrastructure sector, what is the mix between public and private?
Parminder Chopra
For the infrastructure sector, 96% sanctions are for the government sector and only around 4% is for the private sector. As we have earlier also shared that we are following a bit, we are following steady and slow process for funding of the infrastructure sector. And we are bit cautious because it’s a new sector for us. And out of the H1 book, if you ask me, so the total sanctions for H1 is around INR23,000 crores — maybe INR24,000 crores, and that too, again, the percentage may be the same.
Unidentified Participant
Got it, ma’am. And ma’am, thank you, and in the interest of time, I just wanted to squeeze in one last question. You’ll recall that RBI circular on ECL provisions for project financing, recently, there has been media coverage. Just wanted to hear from you, I mean, any update that you heard either from the Power Ministry or from the Finance Ministry on that RBI circular on ECL provisions on project financing?
Parminder Chopra
See, as we understand that, PFC as well as other lenders through their respective ministries and banks also through the Ministry of — Finance Ministry has taken up the issue with RBI on the infrastructure provisioning circular, what you are mentioning. So we have to see whatever suggestions have been given what finally comes out in the final version of the circular and only then, we will be able to see something. Because there were numerous, I think, suggestions which were made as a part of by various lenders on this sector.
Unidentified Participant
Got it, ma’am. Thank you so much for patiently answering all my questions. Wish you and your team the very best.
Parminder Chopra
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you, sir. [Operator Instructions] The next question is from the line of Romil Oza from Romil Oza Company [Phonetic]. Please go ahead.
Unidentified Participant
Hi, ma’am. Congrats on a great quarter. So one thing that I have been calculating is that on a consolidated basis — hello?
Parminder Chopra
Hello. Yes, yes.
Unidentified Participant
On a consolidated basis, our recoveries from the non-performing assets might be upwards of INR8,000 crores, INR8,500 crores pretax. And that is between REC and PFC, because between KSK Mahanadi, Hiranmaye and Sinnar, what bids we’ve been seeing in the newspapers, it means that our provisioning has been quite conservative. So that would add like almost a quarter of earnings to PFC’s earnings for the year. It would be like an additional quarter of earnings. And that would increase our capital adequacy rate, which is already hovering around 25% to a much higher level.
And if you go by projections for electricity demand, I think we are lagging as a country in terms of putting up the demand. So shouldn’t either — aren’t you going to be a very large dividend, which I think might be a second priority, given that the growth required, especially from PFC and REC, Power Finance Corporation and Rural Electrification Corporation, shouldn’t that be much higher? Like I know you’d love being conservative, but isn’t 14% a very low number?
Parminder Chopra
See, I think your observation is correct. We have seen conservative in provisioning. And as a result, we have — we are expecting our recoveries to be good as compared to the provisioning whatever we made. But on the other side that we require capital for growth. As you have seen that in the previous quarter, we were at around 27%. And this quarter, we are at 24.5%. And that all depends on capital adequacy. The risk weight, which we assign, that is required to be assigned to each of the asset is very important. We had disbursed a lot of money under various schemes like LPS, LIS, where it was all backed by government guarantee, and a 20% risk weight was required to be assigned to those assets.
If we go for the growth in the current scenario, where a lot of capital works are happening and our disbursements are going to be towards the capital works, that is going to attract — and not backed by government guarantee, that is going to attract a 100% risk weight on those assets. For that purpose and maintaining the capital, I think, is going to be — for a consistent growth going forward, we need some capital for — on the regular basis. But yes, to some extent, during the intervening period, we may have some reversals resulting in higher profits. And as you know, what is our dividend policy, we always follow the government of India guidelines for the dividend and we pay 30% of the profit after tax for 5% of the net worth as dividend, whichever is higher. We are going to follow that policy in the coming future years also. So in any case, if something is added on to that and that we will be giving as rewarding our investors and giving them the handsome return.
Unidentified Participant
And ma’am…
Operator
Sorry to interrupt you, sir. May we request you to return to the question queue.
Unidentified Participant
Sure. It’s been only one question. I think my question is very relevant in that I think our company is being quite conservative in its projections, and it’s performing far better than the analysts are projecting. So I wanted to ask one more question.
Parminder Chopra
Yes, tell me.
Unidentified Participant
I think, ma’am, I know you’ve been here for 30 years. You’ve helped grow the company and the country. But I think your growth projection, it’s too conservative given the total addressable market and given the need from the country to add the power generation. And what’s happening is that the market is not discovering the true value of Power Finance Corporation. And I know you like being humble. But at a certain point, you’ll have to reveal that Power Finance Corporation is one of the best companies in India right now and probably one of the best investments in India right now. And so that’s why I was asking you this question.
Parminder Chopra
I think you observed that there is a lot of potential for infrastructure and power sector financing in the country. And looking at the overall target for funding of the power sectors, like it is expected that a INR30 lakh crore is expected to be the funding requirement till 2030. So there is going to be a huge requirement. But with a lot of institutions coming up for infrastructure financing — in the infrastructure financing space, as you know, that now PFC, REC in any case is there, IIFCL is there, now NaBFID is coming up.
Apart from that infra, traditionally, other than power sector, all infrastructure sector is being taken care by the banks. So I think all the institutions have sufficient headroom available for the growth. And that is why we are saying that, okay, we wanted for the infrastructure sector, as per our earlier guidance, we want it to be a bit slow and cautious in our approach because it’s a new area for us. The power sector, we agree that we understand the power sector, and I can assure you that the power sector business as much as we can do, we will definitely be doing. And right now, I can say only this much.
Unidentified Participant
Thank you for your time and thank you for your service to the country, ma’am.
Parminder Chopra
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you, sir. [Operator Instructions] The next question is from the line of Jigar Jani from B&K Securities. Please go ahead.
Jigar Jani
Congratulations on a [Indecipherable] just keeping [Phonetic] questions, could you share…
Operator
Sorry to interrupt, sir. Sir, can you please use your handset?
Jigar Jani
Just a moment. Is this better?
Unidentified Speaker
Yes, yes.
Operator
Yes.
Jigar Jani
Yeah. So I just wanted to check two data keeping questions. One, on TRN Energy, what would be your PCR?
Parminder Chopra
TRN Energy, we have around 50% provisioning.
Jigar Jani
And just confirming, Sinnar would be 80% and KSK would be 55%?
Parminder Chopra
Yeah.
Jigar Jani
And what would be the recovery expectations on TRN and Shiga, given that we are very close to resolving them? Any recovery expectations or percentages that you could share?
Parminder Chopra
See, I think our provisioning will be sufficient to take care of the resolution. And there would be slightly write-back also.
Jigar Jani
[Indecipherable]
Operator
Thank you, sir. The next question is from the line of Nikhil from Bernstein. Please go ahead.
Nikhil Nigania
Hi. Thank you, ma’am. Just had one question. If you — Adani Power’s plant supplying power to Bangladesh, if you could give some color on that, what is the exposure and what is the loan security mechanism and if there is any stress foreseen on that asset?
Parminder Chopra
I don’t remember upfront what is the outstanding. But definitely, we have funded the project in the Jharkhand, which is supplying power to the Bangladesh. But there has not been any delay of a single day in our recoveries from this project. And I think the promoter is taking care. And we have heard that they are going to get all their payments from the Bangladesh government soon. But otherwise, there is no delay for the PFC servicing. This is what [Indecipherable].
Nikhil Nigania
Understood. Thank you. That’s very clear.
Operator
Thank you, sir. The next question is from the line of Sanket Chheda from DAM Capital. Please go ahead.
Sanket Chheda
Yeah. Hi, ma’am. Congrats on a very good quarter and a strong comeback. My question was on disbursement. This quarter, disbursements have been pretty strong. So was it like some disbursements of Q1, which could not be done because of the system change that you went through? Or should we see this run rate sustaining going ahead as well, whatever we did in Q2 in terms of disbursement?
Parminder Chopra
I think we will be able to keep the pace what we have achieved, and we will be able to get the growth numbers in line with the previous year.
Sanket Chheda
Okay, okay. And this is after deciding not to go ahead with Shapoorji, you still think 13%, 14% would be doable for this [Indecipherable].
Parminder Chopra
Right.
Sanket Chheda
Yeah. Sure, ma’am. Yeah, that was the only question from my side. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
Parminder Chopra
Thanks.
Operator
Thank you, sir. The next question is from the line of Raghu from Travis Capital [Phonetic]. Please go ahead.
Unidentified Participant
Yeah, ma’am. Sorry. Just last thing confirming. Next two quarters, what is the expected write-back we can expect if the KSK Mahanadi and all get resolved in the next six months? Can we assume something around INR1,000 crores?
Parminder Chopra
See, the only thing is that once the evaluation is complete, we will be submitting it to NCLT, but we can’t say that when the NCLT approval is going to come. Once we receive the NCLT approval and the restructuring plan is implemented, what has been approved by NCLT, only then we can go for reversal of the provisioning. And I can share you the number that in Shiga, we have INR159 crore of provisioning; in TRN, we have around INR550 crore provisioning; and in KSK, we have around INR1,800 crore provisioning.
Unidentified Participant
Okay. So at least next three quarters, can we expect around INR1,000 crores, maybe including the projects we said?
Parminder Chopra
See, I have given you. It all depends on the stage of resolution. And we are expecting that in TRN and Shiga, we will be able to conclude within this financial year.
Unidentified Participant
Yes. Thank you so much, ma’am. Thank you. Have a great day. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you, sir. The next question is from the line of Shreepal Doshi from Equirus Securities. Please go ahead.
Shreepal Doshi
Yeah. Hi, ma’am. Just a question on margin front. So how do you see the margin trending for us for the second half? In case of — just wanted to understand that part.
Parminder Chopra
See, we always have given guidance that our margins are going to remain at around 3% to 3.5% range. And we expect that we will definitely be within these levels.
Shreepal Doshi
But given the current situation, will we be towards — will we be near to the upper band side of it? Or there could be — or it could be lower side of the band?
Parminder Chopra
It all depends on the growth numbers. And if you see that in first half, we are slightly above 3.5%.
Shreepal Doshi
Right. Got it.
Parminder Chopra
Thank you.
Shreepal Doshi
Got it, ma’am. Thank you. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you, sir. As there are no further questions, I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Shreepal Doshi for closing comments.
Shreepal Doshi
Thank you, everyone, for being part of the call and thanks to the management of Power Finance Corporation for giving us the opportunity to host this call. Thank you, everyone, and have a good weekend.
Parminder Chopra
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Operator
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