New Delhi, Dec 31 || The dividend payout to the Government from Central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) has jumped by 86.2 per cent from Rs 39,750 in 2020–21 to Rs 74,017 crore in 2024-25, reflecting the Centre’s efficient capital management policies, enhanced accountability mechanisms, and appropriate spacing of disinvestment transactions, according to a statement issued by the Finance Ministry on Wednesday.
In 2025, the Finance Ministry’s Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) continued to play a pivotal role in strengthening public finances, enhancing value creation in CPSEs, and deepening market-oriented reforms through effective capital management, strategic disinvestment, and focused capacity building initiatives, the statement said.
Despite the progressive dilution of Government shareholding in CPSEs through disinvestment, dividend payouts have consistently increased since FY 2020-21, the statement said.
Dividends from CPSEs form an important source of non-tax revenue. Dividend pay-outs are currently deliberated in a structured manner in the inter-Ministerial forum called the Committee for Monitoring of Capital Management and Dividends by CPSES.