ICRA Nepal reaffirms Issuer Rating of ICRANP-IR BB- to Maya Khola Hydropower Company; rating indicates moderate risk of default regarding timely servicing of financial obligations

ICRA Nepal Limited has reaffirmed Issuer Rating of [ICRANP-IR] BB- (Pronounced as ICRA NP Issuer Rating Double B Minus) to Maya Khola Hydropower Company Limited. Issuers with this rating are considered to have a moderate 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] BB+ is one notch higher than [ICRANP-IR] BB, while [ICRANP-IR] BB- is one notch lower than [ICRANP-IR] BB.