Letters: PSUs' health | Business Standard
Letters: PSUs' health | Business Standard
Letters: PSUs' health
Business Standard | New Delhi
February 11, 2014 Last Updated at 21:02 IST
This refers to the report "Finance Minister asks banks
to go after willful defaulters" (February 11). It is common knowledge that
the government has been milking profit-making public sector undertakings (PSUs), including public sector banks and
statutory bodies, by making unreasonable demands for cash transfers and
diversion of resources to less-profitable avenues. If Finance Minister P Chidambaram's expectation
that "humongous" capital is required in the future comes from genuine
concern for the health of PSUs, then this should be demonstrated by curbing
"informal" directions to transfer surplus income and profit to the
government and the declaration of dividends to meet a budgeted
"quota" of receipts from government-owned organisations.
M G Warrier
Thiruvananthapuram
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