₹14 Cr Campus Expansion Term Loan for a Maharashtra Public Charitable Trust Running a CBSE School
A 22-year-old registered Public Charitable Trust operating a 1,850-student K-12 CBSE school near Pune needed ₹14.00 crore to construct a new senior-secondary wing, STEM labs and a 15-bus fleet.
Published: 28 October 2026
Deal Tombstone #BC-2026-07Education Funding
Sanctioned
₹14.00 Cr
Location
Pimpri–Chinchwad / Pune
Lender Category
Public Sector Bank (Institutional Desk)
Pricing / Rate
9.15% p.a. (1-Yr MCLR Linked)
Tenor & Moratorium
120 Months (incl. 18-Mo Academic Moratorium)
Key Coverage / Ratio
1.69x Fee-Surplus DSCR · Sec. 36A Sanction
1. Borrower profile & initial credit bottleneck
Two private banks declined the file because the borrower is a Public Charitable Trust registered under the Maharashtra Public Trusts Act, 1950, requiring prior borrowing and mortgage permission from the Charity Commissioner under Section 36A.
Standard monthly EMI schedules created artificial cash-flow gaps in April and May because school tuition fees are collected in three academic term tranches (June, October and January).
The new academic wing could admit its first batch only in June of the following academic year.
2. How the file and cash-flow waterfall were structured
Prepared the Section 36A application package demonstrating public-purpose asset creation, trustee resolution and fee-surplus repayment capacity, securing Charity Commissioner permission.
Structured a ₹14.00 crore Institutional Term Loan with a public-sector bank at 9.15% p.a. featuring an 18-month construction moratorium aligned with the June academic intake.
Replaced flat monthly principal repayments with term-aligned balloon instalments falling due in July, November and February — matching fee collection peaks and achieving a 1.69x average DSCR.
3. Before vs. after sanction comparison
Comparison of initial position vs. final sanctioned terms (BC-2026-07)
Credit Metric
Initial Position / Bottleneck
Structured Sanction
Sanctioned Facility
Declined by 2 retail banks on Trust constitution
₹14.00 Cr Institutional Term Loan (₹12.50 Cr Building + ₹1.50 Cr Labs/Buses)
Interest Rate
11.25% NBFC quote
9.15% p.a. (PSU Bank Institutional MCLR)
Repayment Structure
Rigid monthly EMI (mismatched to fee terms)
Academic term-linked principal (July / Nov / Feb) + monthly interest