During the middle of January, government plans to launch the divestment of its 10 per cent stake in Oil India.
The government plans to mop up around Rs 2,700 crore by offloading its 10 per cent stake in the firm at the prevailing market price. Following this, the government would offload its 9.5 per cent stake in NTPC thereby collecting another over Rs 12,000 crore through Offer for Sale (auction) route.
The above stake sale are part of the Rs 30,000-crore disinvestment drive the government planned for 2012-13.
The government holds 84.5 per cent stake in the NTPC. Post-disinvestment, the government stake would come down to 75 per cent. NTPC became public with an initial public offer (IPO) in 2004.
It may be noted that the government plans to divest its holding in 10 companies, including Oil India, SAIL and Hindustan Aeronautics. It plans to sell 10 per cent stake each in Rashtriya Ispat Nigam and Hindustan Aeronautics.
Besides, it plans to offload 12.15 per cent in Nalco, 10.82 per cent in SAIL and 9.33 per cent in MMTC. Also, a 5 per cent stake sale in BHEL and another 4.01 per cent in Hindustan Copper are in the pipeline.
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