Centre Raises Over Rs 45,000 Crore From Disinvestment, Asset Monetisation in FY26
- Authored by: Vikas Kumar
- Updated Aug 10, 2026, 15:29 IST
In the Financial Year 2025-26, the Union Government achieved a total of Rs 45,306 crore from disinvestment and asset monetisation, surpassing its Revised Estimates of Rs 33,837 crore.
Government has budgeted Rs 80,000 crore under Miscellaneous Capital Receipts.
The Union Government has collected a combined mop-up sum from disinvestment and asset monetisation at Rs 45,306 crore in the Financial Year 2026. The amount is exceeding the Revised Estimates, as per the information shared by the Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary.
The government had estimated the Miscellaneous Capital Receipts, including PSU disinvestment and public asset monetisation, at Rs 33,837 crore in the Revised Estimates (RE) for 2025-26.
“Government of India realised an amount of Rs 45,306.05 crore in FY 2025-26, which included Rs 16,885.56 crore from disinvestment and Rs 28,420.49 crore from Asset Monetisation,” MoS Finance said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
Notably, for the current fiscal, the government has budgeted Rs 80,000 crore under Miscellaneous Capital Receipts.
He told that Rs 52,716 crore has come from disinvestment through Offer for Sale of Central Bank of India, Coal India Ltd, Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), NHPC, NLC India, General Insurance Corporation of India, Indian Railway Finance Corporation Ltd, and Cochin Shipyard, as well as strategic disinvestment of Indian Medicines Pharmaceuticals Corporation Ltd.
In the Financial Year 2027, centre has realised Rs 59,083 crore under Miscellaneous Capital Receipts, which included about Rs 6,367 crore from asset monetisation.
As per a report by The Times Of India, Centre is unlikely to dilute its list of public sector enterprises identified for strategic sale despite repeated demands from several ministries to reconsider the companies included in the privatisation plan.
The report citing officials said that some ministries have repeatedly approached NITI Aayog and other agencies with suggestions to reconsider the list.
In 2025-26, the disinvestment receipts stood at Rs 16,886 crore, while in 2024-25 it was Rs 10,163 crore. In FY24, FY23 and FY22, it was Rs 16,507 crore, Rs 35,294 crore and Rs 13,534 crore, respectively.
One of the key disinvestment in the process is the IDBI Bank, the only major entity being actively pursued for strategic sale. Fairfax, owned by Prem Watsa, and Emirates NBD are the two bidders in the race.
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