The authorities on Friday obtained as a lot as ₹1,632 crore in dividends from 5 public-sector firms, together with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd., and SAIL, and one other ₹3,200 crore from Hindustan Zinc Limited, taking its complete disinvestment and dividend receipts tally for 2022-23 to over ₹94,280 crore.
“With dividend receipts adding up to ₹58,988.34 crore and disinvestment transaction yielding ₹35,293.52 crore, we have now surpassed the 2022-23 Revised Estimates of ₹93,000 crore for receipts from these two heads,” a high official from the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management within the Finance Ministry advised The Hindu.
