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Govt to sell PSU stakes when market conditions improve: Jaitley

24 Nov 2015 Evaluate

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that the government will sell stake in some state-owned companies, especially those in metals business only when market conditions improve amid concerns that the disinvestment target of Rs 69,500 crore for the current fiscal year may be missed. Jaitley said “I have already said there are few stocks, especially metal stocks, which are down globally. Therefore, in such circumstances it would not be appropriate to sells such stocks in the market”.

For the current financial year, the government has budgeted to raise Rs 69,500 crore through disinvestment, 180 per cent higher than the total amount garnered from PSU share sales in the previous fiscal, though the government has missed its divestment target for five years in a row. Of this, Rs 41,000 crore is to come from minority stake sale in PSUs and the remaining Rs 28,500 crore from strategic stake sale. With eight months of the current fiscal about to be over, the government has been able to sell stake only in four companies -- PFC, REC, Dredging Corp and IOC to net Rs 12,600 crore.

For the current fiscal, the government has a pipeline of over 20 PSUs for offloading part stake for which it already has the Cabinet approval which include 10 per cent stake sale each in OIL, Nalco, NMDC, and 5 per cent each in NTPC, ONGC, BHEL. Besides, plans are afloat for 10 per cent stake sale in Coal India. However, volatile market conditions have dented the prospects of a stake sale, with the recent disinvestments of IOC and PFC facing rough weathers.


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