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Thursday, July 17, 2025
TopicPublic sector enterprises

Topic: public sector enterprises

Of 36 PSUs up for sale since 2016, just 10 sold so far, and 8 of these were bought by other PSUs

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Ministry of Finance also informed Parliament that from 2023-24 onwards, it has stopped providing targets in budget for how much it expects to receive through disinvestment. 

Discarded privatisation plans? Number of operating public sector companies rises by 20 since 2014

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
While CPSE closures have tripled, new companies are coming up too. With profits & dividends being balanced by low disinvestment proceeds, question is whether govt’s strategic shift is working.

India’s public sector enterprises: Where do we go from here?

Devesh Kapur -
Although CPSEs continue to have a considerable presence in India’s economy, their role in generating jobs has declined.

Privatising sectors isn’t enough, public companies need to be told to perform or die

TN Ninan -
While privatising markets benefits customers, the system must accept the hard budgetary constraints on the public sector entities in these markets.

Cabinet Secy shoots down mediocre proposals to boost public sector

Anubhuti Vishnoi -
Cabinet Secretary disappointed with suggestions and proposals made so far, wants radical ideas for adapting public sector enterprises to ‘New India’.

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Opinion

India’s solar ambition needs financial vision – ISA must move from commitments to execution

Arvind Mayaram -
The ISA should champion a Global Solar Asset Registry for standardised project information, and establish a Solar Credit Guarantee mechanism to mitigate political and currency risks.

CJI’s involvement in selection of CBI director is a safeguard, not a subversion

Report leak, global headlines pinned Air India crash on dead pilots. But nothing adds up

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Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

3 top ULFA-I leaders ‘killed’ in Myanmar, Indian Army denies role as insurgent group alleges involvement

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The banned group claimed their leaders & cadres were killed in ‘drone strikes’ by the Indian Army. Guwahati Defence PRO denies any such operation.

National Interest

RSS chief Bhagwat draws the line at 75. India’s politics stares at the Modi Exception

Shekhar Gupta -
BJP has no dynastic succession, at least not at the top. You can trace this back to Vajpayee-Advani era. This act of spotting, empowering younger talent is even more striking with the choice of BJP presidents.

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