A few days ago, the group made an aggressive entry by bidding for all the six airports put up for privatisation by the Airports Authority of India, locking horns with big boys in the airport infrastructure business (the GMR group has thrown its hat into the ring for all the airports).

A senior official of the Andhra Pradesh Airports Development Corporation, the government nodal agency handling the bidding process, has confirmed the development.

The consortium intends to invest over EUR 500 million (approx Rs 4,034.28 crore) for development of the new airport, GMR Infrastructure said in a regulatory filing.

According to a regulatory notice filed Thursday night, the infra major said the total income during the quarter under discussion stood at Rs 2,119.87 crore down from Rs 2,276 crore in Q3FY18.

GMR Infrastructure in February, 2018 said its subsidiary GMR Airports entered into an agreement with Malaysia Airports Holding Berhad and its subsidiary to acquire 11% of the stake that the Malaysian company is holding in GMR Hyderabad International Airport, for $76 million.

“Kakinada SEZ, a subsidiary of GMR Infra, signed an MoU with APGDC to get access to piped domestic natural gas for its upcoming 10,500-acre zone,” the company said in a filing to BSE.

The immediate cash payout works out to around Rs 15 billion, as the three investors are to give new loans of Rs 20.05 billion as part of the transaction. In 2010-11 and 2011-12, GMR Group had raised Rs 14.78 billion via compulsorily convertible preference shares from SBI Macquarie, Standard Chartered Private Equity, JM Financial Old Lane and others.