public sector enterprises

Union Finance Minister Sh. Pranab Mukherjee said that Central Government is committed to give our Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs/PSUs) the necessary flexibility and autonomy to operate effectively in a competitive environment. The Financre Minister Full Article

All companies, other than PSC, may issue at least 10 % of the shares or convertible debentures to the public in terms of offer document, if the post issue capital of the company, calculated at the offer price, is more than INR 4,000 Cr. Such companies shall bring the public shareholding to the level of at least 25% by increasing its public shareholding within a period of 3 years from the date of listing of securities. Full Article

This notification allows for a lower public shareholding for public sector enterprises (PSEs). It also provides flexibility to all companies in attaining 25% (or 10% for public sector enterprises) public shareholding level within three years without any annual floor. Full Article

Complaints against Chief Executives and Functional Directors of the :Public Sector Enterprises and CMDs and Functional Directors of Public Sector Banks and Financial Institutions whether pseudonymous or otherwise, received by the Cabinet Secretariat or the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) or the Prime Minister’s office, will be first scrutinized by the Group headed by the secretary (Coordination) in the Cabinet Secretariat. Full Article

If something is not taxable at all, can one exempt it? Obviously not. If one does it, it is conceptually meaningless and even absurd. Taking an excise example, it is like saying that free air is exempt. If free air is not taxable, it cannot be exempted by the government. Precisely this type of conceptual error is visible in the exemption list suggested in the Report of the Task Force of the 13th Finance Commission . Full Article

Even as the government termed the forgery of about Rs 10,000 crore in private technology services provider Satyam Computer Services as ‘an aberration’ on Thursday, a report by the Comptroller Auditor General of India points to significant irregularities in the accounts of its own companies, including NTPC, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) and [...] Full Article

A delegation of the Public Finance Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (Icai) led by chairman, Mr Subodh Kumar Agrawal called on state finance minister Mr Prafulla Chandra Ghadei and offered free consultancy service to the state government. The consultancy service, free of cost, given to the Union government, state government and [...] Full Article