New Delhi, May 13The Centre has pocketed over Rs. 2.73 lakh crore from Central PSUS in the energy sector through mechanisms such as dividends, strategic disinvestments, minority sales and buybacks, an analysis done by BusinessLine shows.
These receipts do not include tax revenues, which have been a favourite source of income for the current government.
According to BSE data, dividends from listed energy PSUs have contributed over Rs. 1.51 lakh crore to the exchequer from FY14 to FY19. The Centre’s mop-up through dividend payments from oil companies (both upstream and downstream) stood at Rs. 69,513 crore. From power companies (including Coal India Ltd), it got Rs. 81,133 crore.
