The central government is looking to push at least one take up divestment in at least one company by the month end out of the scheduled disinvestments in Oil India, Hindustan Copper and National Aluminium Co.

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M Haleem Khan, divestment secretary, said on the sidelines of Ficci capital markets conference, “The government is trying its level best to push the divestment programme. One of these disinvestments can take place by end of this month.”It plans to come out with an elaborate divestment plan for this fiscal.

Divestment in Steel Authority of India Ltd, NMDC, Power Grid, MMTC and NTPC would be considered by end of this fiscal.It is targeting to raise Rs30,000 crore through divestments this fiscal.

The stake sale in NTPC would be the biggest at around Rs10,000-12,000 crore.

The RINL IPO, Khan said, would revisited in a month or two. Also, a committee has been constituted to look into the structure of the IPO of Hindustan Aeronautics, which is likely by March 2013.The government is trying to engage pension funds and insurance firms in the divestment process, he said.

All divestment proceeds of central public sector enterprises would be routed to the National Investment Fund (NIF), which would be maintained outside the Consolidated Fund of India and managed professionally to provide sustainable returns to the government, without any depletion of its corpus.

He said the NIF was not for bringing down fiscal deficit.