PM to meet 25 PSU heads to discuss ways to push economic growth

23 Oct 2012 Evaluate
In continuation of his government’s ongoing push to reforms, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be meeting the chiefs of top public sector undertakings (PSUs) on Tuesday to discuss ways to push economic growth through enhanced investments, besides providing them greater autonomy and empowerment. The meeting has been convened at the request of Heavy Industries Minister Praful Patel, who also holds charge of the Department of Public Enterprises.

The meeting, to be attended by 25 heads of companies, includes chairmen of SAIL, ONGC, Coal India, NTPC, Indian Oil, and BHEL to convey their views on several key issues like autonomy and empowerment of CPSEs, their disinvestment plans and changes in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) system and mostly Maharatnas and Navratnas, will be the first interaction of the Prime Minister collectively with captains of public sector undertakings (PSUs).  Moreover, the meeting will discuss on flexibility to the boards of CPSEs, professionalism, future investment plans, capital expenditure and their plan to go global.

Earlier, Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, had held a meeting with top nine CPSUs on September 9, on the matter and asked these companies to invest more. These nine CPSUs alone have nearly Rs 1.80-lakh crore as cash reserves. However, during 2010-11, the 248 CPSEs touched an all time high investment of more than Rs 6.66 lakh crore, which was 15 per cent more than the previous year and the total turnover of all PSUs went up by 18.3 per cent to Rs 14.7 lakh crore in the 2010-11 fiscal.

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