Disinvestment
is the process of reducing the share of government in public
sector undertakings.
Disinvestment
of a minority stake in PSUs can be done in the following ways:
● Initial Public
Offering (IPO): an offer of shares by an unlisted PSU to the public for the
first time.
● Follow-on Public
Offering (FPO): also known as Further Public Offering, it's an offer of
shares by a listed PSU.
● Offer for sale
(OFS): shares of a PSU are auctioned on the platform provided by the stock
exchange.
This mode has been used
extensively by the government since 2012.
● Institutional
Placement Programme (IPP): under this, only selected financial institutions
are allowed to participate and the government stake is offered to only such
institutions. E.g., mutual funds,insurance, and pension funds such as LIC etc.
● CPSE Exchange
Traded Fund (ETF): Through this route, the government can divest its stake
in various PSUs across diverse sectors through a single offering. This
mechanism allows the government to monetize its
shareholding in those PSUs which form part of the ETF basket.
● Cross-holdings:
in this method, one listed PSU takes up the government stake in another listed
PSU.
Disinvestment
of a majority stake in PSUs:
● Strategic sale:
it is the sale of a substantial portion of government shareholding, 50 percent
or higher, in a PSU, along with the transfer of management control.
● Privatization:
it's a type of strategic sale in which the government divests its shareholding,
along with the transfer of management control, to a private entity.
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