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Divestment not very effective: Pant

November 27, 2003 16:52 IST

Taking a critical view of the country's divestment process, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman K C Pant on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction on the progress made on the divestment front and said there had been no significant improvement in operational efficiencies of the units.

"The Indian experience suggests that the targets of divestment have often not been met," Pant said inaugurating a conference on 'Privatisation and Corporate Governance of State-owned Assets' in New Delhi.

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"The progress in privatisation has not been quite satisfactory in most of the countries in South Asia, including India," he added.

Pant said the state-owned enterprises were privatised or divested as they suffered from basic problems like soft budget constraints, multiple objectives, absence of incentives and stringent control by multiple authorities resulting in their inefficiency.

"Privatisation too has encountered significant road blocks, making the process slow and painful".

Stating that there were no templates, which could be readily adopted, Pant said the concept of strategic sale has been criticised particularly in regard to the sale price of the real assets of the PSUs.

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