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'Disinvestment of REC, NTPC to be completed by March'

Disinvestment in three power PSUs - NTPC, Rural Electrification Corporation and Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam - would be completed during the current financial year while the process of selling stake in other profit-making PSUs is already underway. - Nalco, NPCIL ink pact for nuke power generation - Sensex recovers, rises 68 points to 17,198 - Govt eyes lead managers for NTPC, SJVN stake sale - ONGC opposes parking funds with state-run banks - No headway in BHEL disinvestment: Vilasrao - PSUs to lose out on interest "Disinvestment of government shareholding in NTPC, SJVN and REC through public offering in domestic market, is under implementation. These public offerings are likely to be completed by March 31, 2010," Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in a statement in Rajya Sabha. While in NTPC and REC, five per cent stake each was being off-loaded, it was 10 per cent in SJVN through the capital market, he said. This apart, the Department of Disinvestment has started dialogue with the administrative ministries and the central public sector undertakings (CPSUs) to assess their capital expenditure requirements to be raised through issue of fresh equity in case of other public sector undertakings. Mukherjee"s statement came in response to a calling attention motion by Tapan Kumar Sen (CPI-M) on "disinvestment of government shares in profit making central public enterprises." Noting that only profit earning CPSUs will sustain investor-interest for sharing in their prosperity, the minister said, "Already listed profitable CPSEs not meeting the mandatory public shareholding of 10 per cent are to be made compliant."

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