"We will meet heads of central public sector entities in January.
“We will seek special dividend from the PSU which has not utilised its capex drawn for the current fiscal," a senior Finance Ministry official told PTI.
In the 2013-14 budget, the government has estimated to garner Rs 29,870 crore (Rs 298.7 billion) as dividend from PSUs.
Further, Rs 43,996 crore (Rs 439.96 billion) is estimated to flow in from PSU banks and Reserve Bank of India under the same head.
"We have budgeted Rs 73,866 crore (Rs 738.66 billion). We will achieve it," the official added.
In the last fiscal, the government had originally budgeted a dividend income of Rs 27,178 crore (Rs 271.78 billion) from PSUs.
However, this went up to Rs 29,996 crore (Rs 299.96 billion) in the revised estimates as companies paid higher dividend on demand from the Finance Ministry.
To boost industrial production, Finance Ministry has been pressing all the public sector entities to make investment as per their capex plan for the current fiscal.
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