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Informist, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026

NEW DELHI – The government has its eyes fixated on unlocking the value of India's state-owned assets through disinvestment receipts, and so far in 2026-27 (Apr-Mar), it has collected INR 527.16 billion, more than triple the amount collected in the entirety of last fiscal. To that extent, the government has collected more than INR 527 billion from disinvestments only twice before--INR 850 billion in FY19 and INR 1 trillion in FY18. 

Including asset monetisation, the government has collected INR 590.83 billion as miscellaneous capital receipts so far, almost 74% of the full year's target of INR 800 billion. In FY26, the government collected INR 453.06 billion as miscellaneous capital receipts, beating the revised Budget estimate by INR 115 billion.

The government collected INR 527.16 billion from the stake sale in nine public sector enterprises so far--Central Bank of India, Coal India Ltd., NHPC Ltd., NLC India Ltd., General Insurance Corp. of India, Indian Railway Finance Corp. Ltd., Cochin Shipyard Ltd., Indian Medicines Pharmaceuticals Corp. Ltd., Life Insurance Corp. of India, and remittance from SUUTI – Specified Undertaking of the Unit Trust of India, data showed. The government had cut its stake in six PSUs in all of FY26.

The government cut its 6.5% stake in LIC just this week, marking likely the biggest offer for sale this year. It collected INR 315.15 billion from the stake sale in LIC, higher than what it collected from stake sales in all other entities combined. 

This year's trend of robust collection under miscellaneous capital receipts is a positive for the government's finances, which could see some pressure due to potential overshooting of expenditure in the wake of the supply bottlenecks and higher commodity prices due to the war in West Asia. This progress also assumes importance as the government has seen limited success in disinvestment, having met its target only thrice in the last decade. It has stopped giving a bifurcated target for divestment since FY25.  End

Reported by Priyasmita Dutta

Edited by Akul Nishant Akhoury

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