The government on Friday received as much as ₹1,632 crore in dividends from five public-sector companies, including the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd., and SAIL, and another ₹3,200 crore from Hindustan Zinc Limited, taking its total 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 top official from the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management in the Finance Ministry told The Hindu.