ICRA Nepal assigns issuer rating of ICRANP-IR B+ to Bhujung Hydropower indicating high risk of default regarding timely servicing of financial obligations

ICRA Nepal Limited has assigned the issuer rating of [ICRANP-IR] B+ (pronounced ICRA NP issuer rating B plus) to Bhujung Hydropower Limited. Issuers with this rating are considered to have high risk of default regarding timely servicing of financial obligations. The Rating is only an opinion on the general creditworthiness of the rated entity and not specific to any particular debt instrument.

For the Rating categories [ICRANP-IR] AA through to [ICRANP-IR] C the sign of + (plus) or – (minus) may be appended to the Rating symbols to indicate their relative position within the Rating categories concerned. Thus, the Rating of [ICRANP-IR] B+ is one notch higher than [ICRANP-IR] B, while [ICRANP-IR] B- is one notch lower than [ICRANP-IR] B.