As part of the central government's National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) 25 Airport Authority of India (AAI) airports have been earmarked for leasing between 2022-2025.
The government and LIC together are looking to sell 60.72 per cent in IDBI Bank and had invited bids from potential buyers in October. The last date for submitting Expression of Interest (EoI) or preliminary bids was set at December 16, which was later extended to January 7.
The government is attempting to entice private investors to purchase its 30.8 percent share in CONCOR which accounts for almost Rs 8,000 crore.
The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) had initially on December 14 invited preliminary bids for selling the government’s 100 per cent stake in the health sector CPSE.
The government should seriously think of selling its stake in loss-making entities operating in the non-strategic sector
In the RITES IPO, the government is selling 12 per cent stake or 2.52 crore equity shares, including 12 lakh shares to employees.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the government are looking at various options to work around the challenges the Centres faces to offload its stakes in public sector companies to meet the August 2017, reported Business Standard.
ONGC will have to settle dues worth Rs 2500 crore and this could have a Rs 1600-1700- crore impact on profit, says Director-Finance AK Srinivasan.
In an interview to CNBC-TV18 Neeraj Kumar Gupta, Secretary, Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) spoke about his views on Central Public Sector Enterprises Exchange Traded fund (CPSE ETF).
Moving ahead with the strategic sale of Pawan Hans, the government today said it will sell its entire 51 percent stake and transfer the management control of the helicopter service operator.
The government has managed to garner over Rs 23,500 crore through selling its stake in public sector enterprises during the first nine months of the current fiscal, representing nearly 60 percent of the disinvestment target, said Manish Singh, Joint Secretary, Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM)
This year will be also remembered as watershed for the government's disinvestment programme as Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to transform the Disinvestment Department from a mere seller of government stake in central PSUs to DIPAM - the manager of its assets.
Besides the usual OFS (offer for sale) route for disinvestment, the newly created Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) has nudged PSUs to buy back shares if they have extra cash which are not put to use for capital expenditure.
The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) in a recent letter to Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) has asked them to pay dividend at the rate of 30 percent of net profit or 5 percent of the networth, whichever is higher.
The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), previously known as Disinvestment Department, has invited bids from merchant bankers to assist the government in the disinvestment process of ITDC, which runs a chain of hotels and restaurants.
The government has set a disinvestment target of Rs 56,500 crore for the current fiscal. Of this, Rs 30,000 crore will come from minority stake sale and the remaining Rs 26,500 crore from strategic stake sale. It has already raised Rs 2,700 crore through 11.36 percent stake sale in NHPC.
Senior IAS officer Ashok Lavasa was designated as the Finance Secretary on May 31
In Budget 2016-17, the government had decided to rename the Department of Disinvestment as Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) and its responsibilities would include efficient management of the government investment in CPSEs.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the the NITI Aayog will identify the state-owned companies which would be eligible for strategic sale.