Govt to go ahead with divestment of 23 PSUs cleared by Cabinet: Finance Minister

28 Jul 2020 Evaluate

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said the government is working on completing the stake sale process of about 23 public sector companies whose divestment has already been cleared by the Cabinet. Sitharaman also said she would soon meet small finance firms and non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) to review the credit being extended by them to businesses. Further, she said the government as part of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat package had announced opening up of all sectors for private participation.

She stated ‘the final call as to which are the sectors which are going to be called ‘strategic’ is not made yet, that has to be announced and I can’t preempt what announcement is likely to come. But in those sectors which we are going to call strategic, the private will obviously be allowed to come in but the public sectors will be limited to a maximum of four units.’ She said this would lead to consolidation of public sector undertakings (PSUs) as well as scaling up of their operations.

For the 2020-21 fiscal, the government has set a disinvestment target of Rs 2.10 lakh crore. Of this, Rs 1.20 lakh crore will come from disinvestment of public sector undertakings and another Rs 90,000 crore from stake sale in financial institutions. With regard to extending credit to the industry, she said under the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS), micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) can avail loans.

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