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New Government should divest stake in cash-rich PSUs to revive economy: Assocham

12 May 2014 Evaluate

Concerned over the prevailing economic slowdown in the country, the industry chamber Assocham has said that the new government should divest stake in the top 10 cash-rich PSUs to raise around Rs 1 lakh crore, which can be used to provide much-needed push to economic growth and tide over revenue shortfall. 

Assocham President Rana Kapoor also said that the new government formed after the general election should take advantage of robust state of domestic stock markets helped by heavy inflow of funds from the foreign institutional investors (FIIs). The disinvestment at high level in cash-rich PSUs will help the new government to improve its revenue, which faces constraint of lower tax earnings because of slowdown in economy. The top 10 PSUs in which the government can divest 10 percent or more stake are ONGC, Coal India, State Bank of India, NTPC, IOC, NMDC, Power Grid Corporation, BHEL, GAIL and Bank of Baroda.

Industry body further noted that the combined market capitalisation of the top 10 PSUs has exceeded Rs 11 lakh crore and if a stable government is formed at the Centre, the combined the m-cap of these PSUs is expected to go up by another 15-20 percent, reflecting an opportunity to new government for better realizations from minority divestment.

In the previous fiscal year, the Government was able to disinvest only around Rs 16,000 crore as against the set target of Rs 40,000 crore mainly on account of subdued economic conditions. The government had cut Rs 79,790 crore from the budgeted Plan expenditure of Rs 5,55,532 crore for financial year 2013-14 amid concerns over burgeoning fiscal deficit. India’s fiscal deficit is likely to widen at 4.6% of GDP in the previous fiscal as compared to 4.89% of GDP in FY13.

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