New Delhi: As the BJP government's disinvestment drive gathers pace, it's worth going back to the Public Enterprises Survey 2017-18 to look at the top 10 profit-making and top 10 loss-making PSUs.
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) brings out a Public Enterprises Survey every year. This is a consolidated report on the performance of all CPSEs, providing an overview of their annual financial and operational achievements. In the last survey that came out in December 2018, Indian Oil, ONGC and NTPC limited were ranked first, second and third, respectively, amongst the top 10 profit-making PSU, while BSNL, Air India and MTNL were the among the topmost loss-making PSUs as per the survey. As per the Public Enterprises Survey 2017-18, there were 184 profit-making PSUs with a total profit of Rs 1,59,635 crore.
As per the survey, there were 71 loss-making PSUs with a total loss of Rs -31,261 crore. Here is the list of top 10 loss-making PSUs during FY2017-18
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