Budget 2024: Govt Aims To Get Rs 50,000 Crore From Disinvestment In FY25

Interim Budget: The government had announced a strategic disinvestment policy on February 1, 2021 to provide a clear roadmap for privatisation of strategic and non- strategic CPSEs

The government has realised Rs 4.33 lakh crore from the financial year 2014-15 to 2023-24, which is 45.6 percent of the Budget Estimate of Rs 9.48 lakh crore and 80.5 percent of Revised Estimate of 5.37 lakh crore.

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 (Thursday) presented the interim Budget of the Modi-led NDA government 2.0 for the financial year 2024-25. But, in her sixth Budget speech, the finance minister did not mention the disinvestment target for the next financial year like last year. However, Budget documents uploaded on the Finance Ministry website later revealed that the government has set the disinvestment target at Rs 0.50 lakh crore for the next financial year. Though, the