Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) on Wednesday said it has received enquiries from over 30 bidders for the asset monetisation process for the domestic roads vertical — worth over Rs 25,000 crore — housed under its subsidiary IL&FS Transportation Networks Ltd.

Tata Power, Torrent, JSW Energy, Greenko, Sterlite Power and Statcraft are among the 15-plus applicants who have submitted their expressions of interest (EoIs) for IL&FS group’s renewable energy assets worth Rs 8,000 crore — the second largest vertical after roads.

Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (“IL&FS”) has received a strong response to the asset monetization process for the Domestic Roads Vertical housed under its subsidiary, IL&FS Transportation Networks Ltd. More than 30 expressions of interest were received for acquiring IL&FS’ interests in its domestic road vertical including its domestic EPC and O&M businesses.

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Tuesday allowed the corporate affairs ministry to reopen the books of the IL&FS Group and its subsidiaries for the past five years under Section 130 of the Companies Act, to ascertain financial mismanagement.

IL&FS group has further put up its properties for sale to garner funds in order to settle loan dues. It has invited bids from interested buyers for properties in Mumbai and one Kolkata.

The company said it is selling five real estate assets in Mumbai and one in Kolkata with 15 January as the final date for potential buyers to submit their bids, IL&FS said in a newspaper advertisement on Friday.

The CA Institute will independently continue with its disciplinary proceedings against the signing audit partners of IL&FS Ltd and two of its subsidiaries irrespective of the fate of the Centre’s plea before the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).

The hostage situation involving the four Indian IL&FS employees in Ethiopia is spiralling out of control with the Ethiopian Road Authority (ERA) backing the local staff’s demand of 12.4 million Ethiopian Birr (ETB) from the company for their release.

IL&FS group has pulled out of the Phase-I of the Ahmedabad Metro project. One of the subsidiaries of the company, IL&FS Engineering, which had won a Rs 370-crore contract to construct viaduct on the second priority stretch on the North-South corridor that was expected to be commissioned by April, 2019.

The Uday Kotak-led board of IL&FS has put the group’s education as well as its alternative investment management (AIM) businesses on the block. This is the fourth set of assets to be put up for sale after the securities, renewable energy and road assets. The education and the AIM businesses are expected to fetch Rs 1,500-2,000 crore.