Disinvestment: Stop whistling in the dark

The plan to privatise some of the banks like Punjab & Sind Bank, Indian Overseas Bank and Bank of Maharashtra is downright outlandish

Business Insight | Air India's disinvestment pushed to August-end, will it find takers this year?

Experts suggest that the government should pause the bidding process till the pandemic ebbs

This time there would be no problem in Air India disinvestment: Hardeep Singh Puri

The minister also assured the employees at Air India that their requirements would be foremost in the airline and factored in whatever arrangement is decided with the successor.

Disinvestment road map for 2020-21: Is it aggressive or realistic?

Assuming that the government does achieve its budgeted disinvestment target, it is important to see how the proceeds are put to use.

Listing LIC: A big reform?

Budget 2020: Will it set the stage for the govt to exit public sector?

It’s time the government found a mechanism to log out and use the saved resources for healthcare and education.

Take strategic disinvestment seriously for the sake of the future

The last thing the government should do is hasten the process of disinvestment to be able to use the proceeds to turn in a respectable fiscal deficit figure by March 31

Quality of disinvestment has a lot of room to cover

The pessimism relating to disinvestment has its origin in the way  stake sales have been conducted.

Govt may raise Rs 30K cr from THDCIL, NEEPCO, land sale in FY20

The land and stake sale is expected to be completed by FY20-end

Insight18 | Understanding government strategic disinvestment of 5 PSUs

Here's an insight on what exactly disinvestment means.

Congress hits out at BPCL disinvestment decision, says govt 'selling the country'

The Cabinet on Wednesday approved a strategic divestment of the government's 53.29 per cent stake in BPCL, along with transfer of certain management control. This is excluding BPCL's equity share holding of 61 per cent stake in Numaligarh Refinery.

No Cabinet decision yet on BPCL disinvestment

There is a possibility of government selling its 53.29 per cent stake along with management control in oil marketing and refining firm for about USD 10 billion (around Rs 70,900 crore)

Disinvestment is not a bad word, all it needs is a rethink

The government should seriously think of selling its stake in loss-making entities operating in the non-strategic sector

Disinvestment target: DIPAM, Niti Aayog eyeing PSUs in non-priority sector

Sources said that the government is also looking at selling its minority stakes in companies such as Hindustan Zinc and Vedanta.

Modi Government’s Mantra – Disinvestment by any means

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are likely to be the mainstay of the disinvestment programme in FY20 as it contributed 53 percent of the disinvestment receipts in FY19

Budget 2019: Centre sets Rs 1,05,000 crore disinvestment target for 2019-20

Sitharaman in her speech said that the government has been following the policy of disinvestment in non-financial public sector undertakings without taking the government's stake below 51 percent.

Budget 2019 | Accelerating privatisation of public sector enterprises

The progress of privatisation in India has been quite slow, although the disinvestment process accelerated under the NDA 2 regime

Budget Snapshots | Government is being forced to be realistic about disinvestment targets

In the past 10 years, the disinvestment target has been realised only twice, in the most recent two fiscals.

Why the government should consider listing LIC (Premium)

Niti Aayog zeroes in on CPSE assets to be put on the block

Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in March had announced that the government exceeded its disinvestment target for FY18-19 by Rs 5,000 crore, as the proceeds touched Rs 85,000 crore.

Opinion | Did the government really achieve its disinvestment target?

Raiding the balance sheet of PSUs and forcing them to buy other state-owned companies will not help in the long run and is best avoided

Opinion | Lok Sabha polls: Five things that financial markets would like to see in election manifestos

Despite the evidence that economic reforms have helped increase growth, progress on this front has remained slow

Success of Bharat 22 ETF takes govt closer to divestment target

The base issue size was fixed at Rs 3,500 crore. Since it received an overwhelming response, the government has decided to retain Rs 10,000 crore as divestment proceeds.

Fiscal deficit will fall to 3% in two years; FY20 GDP growth pegged at 7.5%: Subhash Chandra Garg

Department of Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg tells Moneycontrol in an interview that the government will achieve the targetted Rs 80,000 crore of disinvestment revenues in 2018-19

BUDGET 2019 | Government raises disinvestment target by 12.5% to Rs 90,000 crore

"The government received over Rs 1 lakh crore from disinvestment proceeds during 2017-18. We are confident of crossing the target of Rs 80,000 crore this year," said interim FM Piyush Goyal.