17 top PSUs will invest Rs 140,000 crore in the next fiscal: PM

01 Feb 2012 Evaluate

In a bid to deal with the unfavorable global economic situation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced a whooping investment of Rs 140,000 crore by 17 blue chip government undertakings in the approaching financial year (2012-13). Appreciating the role of the public sector in the development of the economy, Manmohan said that the role of public investment assumed greater importance at a time when the country was facing a difficult global environment and looking at domestic drivers to propel growth.

The prime minister said that 17 central public sector undertakings (CPSUs) had committed to an investment plan amounting to Rs 140,000 crore in the next financial year and encouraged other CPSUs to similarly ‘pay attention to boosting capital investment’ and increase their turnover to stave off the adverse global impact on the economy.

He further hoped that the private sector would work together with the public sector and invest huge amounts, especially in infrastructure. By adding he said, that even though the turnover of PSUs in the manufacturing and mining sectors had taken a beating in the last fiscal, they should step up their performance especially in mining, production of coal, petroleum and natural gas.

On acquisition of raw material assets abroad, he said the CPSUs should take advantage of the policy, which was recently approved by the cabinet, and also urged CPSUs, especially those in the field of the mining, to seriously explore opportunities for such acquisitions.

Expressing dissatisfaction on the performance of the manufacturing sector, Singh said the share of the manufacturing sector at 15% of the current GDP, was unacceptable. He said that CPSUs had a significant presence in areas such as machine tools, heavy transport, earth moving and mining equipment, shipbuilding, defense equipment, aerospace, heavy electrical equipment and nuclear power generation and they must take up ambitious plans of expansion to make the target of 12 to 14 % growth in manufacturing a reality. He further asserted that his government was willing to do whatever it took to make the CPSEs stronger and more competitive.

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