DIPAM Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey stated that the new PSE policy announced by the government has opened a host of opportunities for the private players who now partake in India's growth story by buying the brownfield assets of public sector enterprises at an attractive valuation. He said privatisation, as a means of improving efficiency and hence achieving higher productivity and improved allocation of resources, has been one of the guiding principles of the Budget.
He added that the unveiling of the blueprint of a new privatisation policy in the Budget is akin to the landmark reforms carried out in 1991. He said ‘the policy has also opened a host of opportunities for the private players who now partake in India's growth story by buying the brownfield assets of the PSEs at an attractive valuation’. Brownfield assets are the existing assets.
Unveiling the PSE policy in Budget 2021-22, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said barring four strategic areas, public sector enterprises (PSEs) in other sectors will be divested. The policy would give a clear roadmap for disinvestment in strategic and non-strategic sectors. The four sectors are atomic energy, space and defence; transport and telecommunications; power, petroleum, coal and other minerals; and banking, insurance and financial services in non-strategic sectors. In case of strategic sector, a ‘bare minimum’ number of CPSEs will be retained and the rest would be privatised or merged or made subsidiary of another CPSE or closed down.
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