As per the Public Enterprise Survey (PES), which is laid every year in both the Houses of the Parliament by Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), certain statutory corporations and all Government Companies in which more than 50% equity is held by the Central Government are classified as CPSEs. The Subsidiaries of these Companies in which any CPSE has more than 50% equity are also categorized as CPSEs, if registered in India. There are 339 CPSEs as on 31.03.2018, out of which 257 are operating CPSEs and 82 are under construction.
Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has not made any observation that only disinvestment will make the Boards of the CPSEs professionally managed.
The list of 257 operating CPSEs is given below:
List of Operating CPSEs, as on 31.03.2018
This information was given by the Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises, Arvind GanpatSawant, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha yesterday.
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