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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicPublic sector enterprises

Topic: public sector enterprises

Losses of Pakistan’s state-owned entities rise by 300% in FY25—‘horrific structural failure’

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Despite being a loss-making entity, Pakistan Railways, with an annual deficit of PKR 55 billion, is now planning a $62 billion corridor under the CPEC 2.0 announced in 2024.

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

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

Gitanjali Das -
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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