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Government may sell 3% stake in GAIL to raise Rs 1,300 crore

The government currently holds 56.11% stake in GAIL; it will sell 3.80 crore shares to offload its stake in the company.

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The government plans to sell 3% stake in state-owned gas utility GAIL India which could fetch over Rs 1,300 crore to the exchequer.

Finance Ministry has moved a draft Cabinet note for inter-ministerial consultations for selling over 3.80 crore shares in GAIL through a public offer, official sources said.

At current trading price of Rs 345.15 per scrip, the stake sale will fetch the government over Rs 1,300 crore.

The government holds 56.11% stake in GAIL.

Divesting 3% interest will help government keep its shareholding well above 51% - minimum strategic holding it has decided to keep in key public sector units.

With this, GAIL has joined the list of oil PSUs which the Department of Disinvestment has shortlisted for disinvestment.

In June, the DoD had floated draft note for selling 3% stake in BPCL.

While the Cabinet has already approved sale of 5% stake in Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and 10% in Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), DoD plans to sell 10% in Oil India (OIL) as well.

The government is targeting Rs 69,500 crore from stake sale in PSUs this fiscal. Of this, Rs 41,000 crore is to come from minority share sale in PSUs and Rs 28,500 crore from strategic stake sale.

With volatile market conditions, the government has so far this fiscal been able to divest 5% stake each in REC and PFC. It has raised over Rs 3,100 crore so far this fiscal.

As per the Public Enterprise Survey 2013-14, India has 234 Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSE), of which 46 are listed. 

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