The National Convention of Workers on Monday has resolved to give a call for nationwide strike in the end of this year to protest against issues including proposed implementation of labour codes, privatisation and disinvestment. The National Convention of Workers held on the martyrdom day of Rashtrapita Mahatma here in the capital, a statement said. The convention adopted the Declaration unanimously and resolved to resort to nationwide strike action in the end of the year, it stated. It stated that the government which failed on all fronts to deliver on the promises is now allowing the forces of communal hatred and polarization under various pretext to divert the united agitations of workers, farmers and other sections of the society from their pressing issues of livelihood and survival. The leaders of INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF, and UTUC among others participated in the convention. Quoting the latest Oxfam report, they explained about the growing ...
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The meeting is to be chaired by the cabinet secretary
Government officials hinted that efforts were being taken to conclude stake sale of Shipping Corp and BEML by March
The government's decision to not list any new entity for privatisation may be because of the prevailing market conditions
The Centre had asked its employees to vacate the accommodation by July 26, six months after AI's disinvestment
The government is half way against the disinvestment target of Rs 65,000 crore for the current fiscal year
Senior officials say govt plans to bring own shareholding down to 75%;
The government has raised over Rs 4.04 lakh crore through disinvestment and strategic sale of public sector enterprises since the Modi government came into power in 2014, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday. Of this, the largest amount totalling over Rs 1.07 lakh crore through offer for sale in 59 cases. This was followed by a stake sale through Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) in 10 tranches, aggregating to Rs 98,949 crore. Strategic sales in 10 companies, including Air India, yielded Rs 69,412 crore to the exchequer in the last 8 years. Share buyback in 45 cases fetched Rs 45,104 crore. 17 CPSEs were listed since 2014-15, which yielded Rs 50,386 crore. Of this, the initial public offering (IPO) of LIC alone fetched the government Rs 20,516 crore. The additional market capitalisation of Rs 7.31 lakh crore was achieved through new listings, the ministry said. Besides, the government has sold its residual stake in Paradeep Phosphate Ltd, IPCL, and Tata Communication for Rs 472 crore, Rs
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DIPAM has so far raised Rs 62,000 crore including dividends of Rs 34,000 crore, says Tuhin Kanta Pandey
The government has garnered about Rs 3,839 crore by selling a 1.5 per cent stake in Axis Bank, held through SUUTI. Last week the government sold a 1.5 per cent stake in Axis Bank through the Specified Undertaking of the Unit Trust of India (SUUTI). The floor price for the offer was Rs 830.63 per equity share. "Government has received about Rs 3,839 crore from the sale of Axis Bank shares held by SUUTI," the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey tweeted. Shares of Axis Bank closed at Rs 854.65, down 0.44 per cent against the previous close on BSE. With the sale of the SUUTI stake, the disinvestment proceeds mopped up so far this fiscal increased to Rs 28,383 crore. The budget target from disinvestment in the current fiscal (Apr-March) is pegged at Rs 65,000 crore.
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The sources said that the government expects over Rs 60,000 crore from the IDBI stake sale.
Centre's receipts from disinvestment till November in FY23 stand at Rs 24,544 crore
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The government should give up its dependence on disinvestment as an instrument for containing the fiscal deficit
Pre-EoI meeting expected to be held this week
But financial considerations remain, especially if disinvestment receipts don't meet Budget target
These include CPSEs under the Ministries of Housing & Urban Affairs and Health & Family Welfare, and Departments of Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications and Fertilisers