Despite the bearish sentiments in the capital market, slowdown in economic activities and uncertainties in the global economy, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is hopeful of meeting disinvestment targets for the current financial year. He said 'I am not revising it (the target) right now. We have fixed the target and we will try to achieve it, but it depends on many other situations, particularly the economic health conditions.'
In the first seven months of the current financial year, the government has been only able to raise around Rs 1,145 crore through a stake sale in Power Finance Corporation (PFC) and there are apprehensions that the government may miss the disinvestment target of Rs 40,000 crore.
The government has delayed its proposed stake sales in the Public Sector Units because of the volatile stock market conditions. The international equity markets have been on a downslide on worries over the ongoing debt crisis in the euro zone and credit crunch in the United States. 'All these aspects have to be taken into account and the government will take a decision at the appropriate time,' Mukherjee said.
Considering uncertain market conditions, public sector firms such as SAIL and Hindustan Copper (HCL) have delayed planned issue of fresh equity issue, through the government may still go ahead with its proposal to offload stake. Further, the government is also planning to divest its stake in ONGC, BHEL, RINL, Hindustan Aeronautics and NBCC, among other companies. During 2010-11, the government had raised around Rs 22,763 crore via the sale of equity in public sector enterprises.
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