chennai global private equity biggie carlyle is set to pump in 28 million into the chennaibased rural housing finance company repco home finance ltd for a minority stakethe funds raised would be used by repco to expand its loan portfolio the investment would come in from carlyle asia growth capital partners veda corporate advisors advised repco in the transactionm balasubramanian md of repco confirmed the transaction carlyle would pick up a minority stake for an investment of 2770 million and will have two board representation in our company we will rapidly ramp up the branch network from the present 25 to 50 by 2011 our operations are now south focused with all branches in the four southern states we have drawn up plans to enter maharashtra haryana and delhi he said as per the business plan of the company the size of the book of the company would increase from rs 650 crore this fiscal to rs 2500 crore by 2011