FM met PSU chiefs; willing to boost investments

13 Sep 2012 Evaluate

The honchos of Public sector companies (PSUs) in infrastructure met Finance Minister (FM) - P Chidambaram on September 12, 2012 and confirmed their willingness to boost up investments. The chiefs have asked the government to prioritize solution for the issues related to project approvals and availability of coal.

Finance Minister called up the meeting to push blue-chip PSUs sitting on cash pile of about Rs 1.8 lakh crore to accelerate investment plans. Finance Ministry is aimed on pushing manufacturing sector and overall economic growth which declined to 9-year low of 6.5% during 2011-12.

NTPC’s Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) Arup Roy Choudhury, BHEL’s Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) B Prasada Rao, Coal India’s CMD S Narsing Rao, ONGC’s Chairman Sudhir Vasudeva, SAIL’s chairman C S Verma along with the heads of NMDC, MMTC and Oil India attended the meeting. The secretaries of different ministries dealing with the infrastructure sector were also present at the meeting.

As per the economic data for April-June 2012-13, the quarterly growth declined to 5.5% from 8% in the same quarter last fiscal and it was mainly due to poor performance of manufacturing sector.

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