Disinvestment receipts to touch Rs 45,000 crore: Jaitley

NEW DELHI: With less than two months to go for the current financial year to come to a close, finance minister Arun Jaitley has exuded confidence that receipts from PSU disinvestment will touch Rs 45,000 crore in 2016-17.

About Rs 30,000 crore have been raised through minority share sale by



way of OFS, share buyback and CPSE ETF, so far in the current fiscal.

"It's true this government does not make a song and dance about disinvestment. I fix a target in every Budget...this year, I am going to touch Rs 45,000 crore in one year," he said at a panel discussion on TV channel Times Now.