Disinvestment calendar to work well, non-tax revenues to improve: Nirmala Sitharaman

05 Feb 2021 Evaluate

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has exuded confidence that the disinvestment calendar announced in the Union Budget will work well. She said the three large areas where the big-ticket expenditure will happen are infrastructure, health and agriculture. The budget had pegged disinvestment receipts for the 2021-22 fiscal beginning April 1 at Rs 1.75 lakh crore.

The government is targeting to conclude strategic sale of BPCL, Air India, Shipping Corporation of India, Container Corporation of India, IDBI Bank, BEML, Pawan Hans, Neelachal Ispat Nigam, in the next fiscal. Besides, the initial public offering of LIC would be launched and strategic sale process of two PSU banks and one general insurance company would be initiated.

Sitharaman said ‘I underline that we have not burdened any section of Indian society with any additional demand for even an additional rupee.’ She added the government is confident that revenue generation will improve through this year and it will be bringing in non-tax revenue other than just disinvestments through various routes, including monetisation of assets. She further said the budget is trying to raise non-tax resources at a time when a lot of money has to be spent.

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