CCEA approves to use disinvestment proceeds for banks recap & right issue of CPSUs

18 Jan 2013 Evaluate

Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has decided to align the National Investment Fund (NIF) operation to enhance the disinvestment policy and  has approved that income from disinvestment can be used for recapitalization of public sector banks and for subscribing to rights issues of Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs).

The NIF will be used for recapitalisation of public sector banks and insurance companies and for preferential allotment of shares of CPSE to promoters so that government holding does not go below 51 per cent, in all cases where CPSE is going to raise fresh equity to meet its capital expenditure programme.

According to the government, with effect from FY14, the disinvestment proceeds will be credited to the public account under the head NIF, and they would remain there until withdrawn or invested for the approved purposes. So far, NIF money was used to meet the capital expenditure needs of selected social sector schemes. Further, the fund managers presently managing the NIF will stand discharged of their responsibility from the date the funds and the interest income are transferred to the fund.

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