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Public Sector Undertakings (PSU) in India are government-owned entities in which at least 51% of stake is under the ownership of the Government of India or state governments. These types of firms can also be a joint venture of multiple PSUs. These entities perform commercial functions on behalf of the government.[1][2] Depending on the level of government ownership, PSUs are officially classified into two categories: Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs), owned by the central government or other CPSUs; and State Public Sector Undertakings (SPSUs), owned by state governments. CPSU and SPSU is further classified into Strategic Sector and Non-Strategic Sector. Depending on their financial performance and progress, CPSUs are granted the status of Maharatna, Navaratna, and Miniratna (Category I and II).

Following India's independence in 1947, the limited pre-existing industries were insufficient for sustainable economic growth. The Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956, adopted during the Second Five-Year Plan, laid the framework for PSUs. The government initially prioritized strategic sectors, such as communication, irrigation, chemicals, and heavy industries, followed by the nationalisation of corporations. PSUs subsequently expanded into consumer goods production and service areas like contracting, consulting, and transportation. Their goals include increasing exports, reducing imports, fostering infrastructure development, driving economic growth, and generating job opportunities. Each PSU has its own recruitment rules and employment in PSUs is highly sought after in India due to high pay and its job security, with most preferring candidates with a GATE score.[3] These jobs are very well known for very high pay scale compared to other Government jobs such as UPSC, facilities such as bunglows, pensions and other subsidized facility and for also very good planned townships settlement life.A PSU non-executives such as workers have a huge payscale difference compared to private sector.

In 1951, there were five PSUs under the ownership of the government. By March 2021, the number of such government entities had increased to 365.[4] These government entities represented a total investment of about 16,410,000,000,000 as of 31 March 2019. Their total paid-up capital as of 31 March 2019 stood at about ₹200.76 lakh crore. CPSEs have earned a revenue of about ₹24,430,000,000,000 + ₹1,000,000,000,000 during the financial year 2018–19.[4]

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History

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When India achieved independence in 1947, it was primarily an agrarian entity, with a weak industrial base. There were only eighteen state-owned Indian Ordnance Factories, previously established to reduce the dependency of the British Indian Army on imported arms.[5]

The British Raj had previously elected to leave agricultural production to the Private sector, with tea processing firms, jute mills (such as the Acland Mill), railways, electricity utilities, banks, coal mines, and steel mills being just some of the economic entities largely owned by private individuals like the industrialist Jamsetji Tata. Other entities were listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.[6]

Critics of private ownership of India's agricultural and industrial entities—most notably Mahatma Gandhi's independence movement—instead advocated for a self-sufficient, largely agrarian, communal village-based existence for India in the first half of the 20th century.[7][8] Other contemporary criticisms of India's public sector targeted the lack of well-funded schools, public libraries, universities, hospitals and medical and engineering colleges; a lack seen as impeding an Indian replication of Britain's own industrialization in the previous century.[9][10][11][12][13]

Post-Independence, the national consensus turned in favor of rapid industrialisation of the economy, a process seen as the key to economic development, improved living standards and economic sovereignty.[14] Building upon the Bombay Plan, which noted the necessity of government intervention and regulation in the economy, the first Industrial Policy Resolution announced in 1948 laid down in broad strokes such a strategy of industrial development. Later, the Planning Commission was formed by a cabinet resolution in March 1950 and the Industrial (Development and Regulation) Act was enacted in 1951 with the objective of empowering the government to take necessary steps to regulate industry.[15]

The first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, promoted an economic policy based on import substitution industrialisation and advocated a mixed economy.[16] He believed that the establishment of basic and heavy industry was fundamental to the development and modernisation of the Indian economy. India's second five year plan (1956–60) and the Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956 emphasized the development of public sector enterprises to meet Nehru's national industrialisation policy. His vision was carried forward by V. Krishnamurthy, a figure known as the "Father of Public sector undertakings in India". Indian statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was instrumental to its formulation, which was later termed the Feldman–Mahalanobis model.[17][18]

In 1969, Indira Gandhi's government nationalised fourteen of India's largest private banks, and an additional six in 1980. This government-led industrial policy, with corresponding restrictions on private enterprise, was the dominant pattern of Indian economic development until the 1991 Indian economic crisis.[15] After the crisis, the government began divesting its ownership of several PSUs to raise capital and privatize companies facing poor financial performance and low efficiency.[19][20]

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Management and classification

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The public sector undertakings are headed by the head of board of directors also known as chairperson cum managing director cum chief executive officer and a vice chairperson cum deputy managing director cum co-chief executive officer along with the members of the board of directors also known as executive director cum c-level officer who are Group 'A' gazetted officers appointed by the President of India in case of central public sector undertakings, its subsidiaries & its divisions and appointed by the Governor of States of India in case of state public sector undertakings, its subsidiaries & its divisions.

All of the public sector undertakings have been awarded additional financial autonomy. Public Sector Undertakings are government establishments that have comparative advantages", giving them greater autonomy to compete in the global market so as to "support [them] in their drive to become global giants".[21] Financial autonomy was initially awarded to nine PSUs as Navratna status in 1997.[22] Originally, the term Navaratna meant a talisman composed of nine precious gems. Later, this term was adopted in the courts of the Gupta emperor Vikramaditya and Mughal emperor Akbar, as the collective name for nine extraordinary courtiers at their respective courts.

In 2010, the central government established the higher Maharatna category, which raises a public sector unit's investment ceiling from ₹1,000 crore to ₹5,000 crores.[23] The Maharatna public sector units can now decide on investments of up to 15 per cent of their net worth in a project while the Navaratna companies could invest up to ₹1,000 crore without explicit government approval. Two categories of Miniratnas afford less extensive financial autonomy.

Guidelines for awarding Ratna[24] status are as follows:

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PSUs in India are also categorized based on their special non-financial objectives and are registered under Section 8 of Companies Act, 2013 (erstwhile Section 25 of Companies Act, 1956).

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Top profit making CPSUs

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List of CPSUs

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Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) can be classified as Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs) or State Public Sector Undertakings (SPSUs). CPSUs are administered by the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises. The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), Ministry of Finance is the nodal department for all the Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs).

As of October 2024, there are 14 Maharatnas, 24 Navratnas and 65 Miniratnas (divided into Category 1 and Category 2).[27][28]

List of Maharatna

  1. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
  2. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
  3. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)
  4. Coal India Limited (CIL)
  5. Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL)
  6. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL)
  7. Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL)
  8. National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC)
  9. Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL)
  10. Power Finance Corporation Limited (PFCL)
  11. Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC)
  12. Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)
  13. Oil India Limited (OIL)
  14. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) (since 12 October 2024)[29]

List of Navratna

  1. Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)
  2. Container Corporation of India (CONCOR)
  3. Engineers India Limited (EIL)
  4. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL)
  5. National Aluminium Company (NALCO)
  6. NBCC (India) Limited
  7. National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC)
  8. NLC India Limited (Neyveli Lignite)
  9. Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL)
  10. Shipping Corporation of India (SCI)
  11. Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL)
  12. ONGC Videsh Limited
  13. Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited (RCF)
  14. Ircon International
  15. RITES Limited
  16. National Fertilizers Limited (NFL)
  17. Housing And Urban Development Corporation Limited (HUDCO)
  18. Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA)
  19. Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC)
  20. Mazagon Dockyard Limited[30]
  21. RailTel Corporation of India Limited (RCIL) (since 30 August 2024)[31]
  22. SJVN Limited[31]
  23. NHPC Limited[31]
  24. Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI)[31]
  25. Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC)
  26. Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC)

List of Miniratna

Miniratna Category-I
  1. Airports Authority of India (AAI)
  2. ONGC Videsh Limited
  3. Antrix Corporation (ANTRIX)
  4. Balmer Lawrie
  5. Braithwaite & Co.
  6. Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL)
  7. Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL)
  8. Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML)
  9. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)
  10. Bridge and Roof Company (India)
  11. Central Electronics Limited (CEL)
  12. Central Coalfields Limited (CCL)
  13. Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited
  14. Chennai Petroleum Corporation (CPCL)
  15. Cochin Shipyard (CSL)
  16. Cotton Corporation of India Limited (CCIL)
  17. EdCIL (India) Limited (EdCIL)
  18. Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE)
  19. Goa Shipyard (GSL)
  20. Hindustan Copper (HCL)
  21. HLL Lifecare
  22. Hindustan Newsprint
  23. Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited
  24. Hindustan Steelworks Construction Ltd.
  25. HSCC India Limited
  26. Indian Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC)
  27. Indian Rare Earths (IRE)
  28. India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO)
  29. Kudremukh Iron Ore Company (KIOCL)
  30. Mahanadi Coalfields (MCL)
  31. MOIL Limited (MOIL)
  32. Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL)
  33. Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited (MECL)
  34. Mishra Dhatu Nigam
  35. MMTC Ltd. (MMTC)
  36. MSTC Limited
  37. National Fertilizers (NFL)
  38. National Projects Construction Corporation
  39. National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC)
  40. National Seed Corporation (NSC)
  41. Northern Coalfields (NCL)
  42. North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCL)
  43. Numaligarh Refinery
  44. Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited
  45. Projects and Development India Limited (PDIL)
  46. Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers (RCF)
  47. Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India
  48. South Eastern Coalfields (SECL)
  49. Telecommunications Consultants India (TCIL)
  50. THDC India Limited
  51. Western Coalfields (WCL)
  52. WAPCOS Limited
Miniratna Category-II (9)
  1. Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India
  2. Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited
  3. Engineering Projects (India) Limited
  4. FCI Aravali Gypsum and Minerals (India) Limited
  5. HMT International Limited
  6. Indian Medicines Pharmaceutical Corporation Limited
  7. MECON
  8. National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC)
  9. Rajasthan Electronics and Instruments Limited

List of Other CPSUs

  1. Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited
  2. Agrinnovate India Ltd.
  3. AFC India Limited
  4. Anushakti Vidhyut Nigam Limited
  5. Aravali Power Company Private Limited (APCPL) Jharli, Jhajjar
  6. Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited
  7. Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Limited
  8. Bengal Immunity Limited
  9. Bharat Broadband Network (BBNL)
  10. Bharat Coal Gasification and Chemicals Ltd (BCGCL)
  11. Bharat Gold Mines Limited
  12. Bharat Immunologicals and Biologicals Corporation
  13. Bharat Refractories Limited, Bokaro
  14. Bharat Wagon and Engineering
  15. Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran
  16. BHAVINI
  17. BEML Midwest ltd.
  18. BHEL Electrical Machines Ltd. (EML)
  19. Bhor Sagar Port Limited
  20. Biotech Consortium India Limited
  21. Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation Ltd (BVFCL)
  22. Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited
  23. BrahMos Aerospace
  24. Bundelkhand Saur Urja Limited
  25. Convergence Energy Services Limited
  26. CSC e-Governance Services India Limited
  27. Cement Corporation of India
  28. Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Limited (CIWTC)
  29. Certification Engineers International Limited
  30. City and Industrial Development Corporation
  31. Chenab Valley Power Projects
  32. Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC)
  33. Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India
  34. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)
  35. Delhi Transco Limited
  36. Delhi Transport Corporation
  37. Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation
  38. Digital India Corporation
  39. Dredging Corporation of India
  40. Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL)
  41. Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL)
  42. Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India
  43. Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited
  44. Fertilizer Corporation of India
  45. Food Corporation of India (FCI)
  46. Fresh & Healthy Enterprises Limited
  47. Gliders India Limited
  48. Green Gas Limited
  49. Green Valley Renewable Energy Limited
  50. Grid Conductors Ltd
  51. Hemisphere Properties India Limited
  52. Hindustan Antibiotics Limited
  53. Hindustan Fertilizers Corporation Limited (HFCL)
  54. Hindustan Insecticides Limited
  55. Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited (HOCL)
  56. Hindustan Prefab Limited
  57. Hindustan Salts Limited
  58. Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL)
  59. Hindustan Teleprinters Limited (HTL)
  60. Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Limited (HURL)
  61. Hindustan Vegetable Oils Corporation
  62. HSCC (India) Limited
  63. IHB Limited (a joint venture of IOCL, HPCL & BPCL)
  64. Indian Dairy Machinery Company Ltd. (IDMC)
  65. India Debt Resolution Company Limited (IDRCL)
  66. India Government Mint
  67. India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL)
  68. India Optel Limited
  69. India Ports Global Limited
  70. India SME Asset Reconstruction Company Limited
  71. Indian Financial Technology and Allied Services
  72. Indian Highway Management Company Limited (IHMCL)
  73. Indian Immunologicals Limited
  74. Indian Medicine Pharmaceutical Corporation Ltd.
  75. Indian Port Rail Corporation Limited(IPRCL)
  76. Indian Potash Limited
  77. Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd
  78. Indian Vaccine Corporation Limited
  79. Indraprastha Gas Limited
  80. Indradhanush Gas Grid Limited (IGGL)
  81. Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services
  82. Industrial Finance Corporation of India Limited
  83. Inland & Coastal Shipping Ltd.
  84. Inland Waterways Authority of India
  85. Instrumentation Limited
  86. Intelligent Communication Systems India Limited (ICSIL)
  87. Irrigation and Water Resources Finance Corporation Limited
  88. Jal Power Corporation Ltd.
  89. Jute Corporation of India
  90. Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited
  91. Karnataka Vijayanagar Steel Limited, NMDC Steel
  92. Khadi Natural
  93. Khanij Bidesh India Ltd.
  94. Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation
  95. Konkan Railway Corporation
  96. Konkan LNG
  97. Krishnapatnam Railway Company Limited
  98. Life Spring Hospitals (P) Ltd.
  99. Madras Fertilizers
  100. Mahanagar Gas
  101. Millennium Telecom Ltd.
  102. Meja Urja Nigam Private Limited (MUNPL)
  103. National Capital Region Transport Corporation
  104. National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL)
  105. National Highways Logistics Management Company
  106. National High Power Test Laboratory (NHTPL)
  107. Narmada Hydroelectric Development Corporation
  108. National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Limited
  109. National Informatics Centre Services Inc. (NIC)
  110. National Jute Manufactures Corporation Limited
  111. National Land Monetisation Corporation (NLMC)
  112. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
  113. National Projects Construction Corporation Ltd (NPCC)
  114. National Textile Corporation
  115. NIIF Infrastructure Finance Limited
  116. NewSpace India Limited
  117. NEPA Mills Ltd.
  118. NSEIT
  119. NSPCL (NTPC- SAIL Power Company Limited)
  120. Open Network for Digital Commerce
  121. Orissa Drugs & Chemicals Ltd (ODCL)
  122. Petronet LNG
  123. Pipavav Railway Corporation Ltd. (PRCL)
  124. Power System Operation Corporation
  125. Praga Tools
  126. Prize Petroleum Company Limited
  127. Protean eGov Technologies Ltd (Formerly NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Limited)
  128. PTC India (formerly Power Trading Corporation India Limited)
  129. Punjab Logistics Infrastructure Limited
  130. Railway Energy Management Company Limited (REMCL)
  131. Rajasthan Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Limited (RDPL)
  132. Ramagundam Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited
  133. Ratnagiri Gas and Power
  134. Ratle Hydroelectric Power Corporation (RHPC)
  135. Receivables Exchange of India Ltd (RXIL)
  136. Sagarmala Development Company
  137. Semiconductor Complex Limited
  138. Smith Stanisteet Pharmaceuticals Limited
  139. Sethusamudram Corporation Limited
  140. Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India
  141. Sponge Iron India Ltd (SIIL)
  142. STCI Finance Limited
  143. State Farms Corporation of India
  144. Talcher Fertilizers Limited.
  145. Tourism Finance Corporation Of India Ltd.
  146. The Industrial Credit Company Limited
  147. UTI Infrastructure Technology and Services Limited (UTIITSL)
  148. Triveni Structurals Limited
  149. Utkarsha Aluminium Dhatu Nigam Limited
  150. UV Asset Reconstruction Company Limited
  151. Indo-Russia Rifles (IRRPL)
  152. Munitions India Limited
  153. Troop Comforts Limited
  154. Yantra India Limited
  155. Tusco Limited.
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List of CPSUs privatized

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List of Central PSUs (Financial Services)

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Nationalised banks

Currently there are 12 Nationalised Banks in India (Government Shareholding power is denoted in %, as of 30 September 2024):

Regional rural banks

Currently there are 28 Regional Rural Banks in India, as of 1 April 2020:[38]

Andhra Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh

  • Arunachal Pradesh Rural Bank

Assam

Bihar

Chhattisgarh

  • Chhattisgarh Rajya Gramin Bank

Gujarat

  • Baroda Gujarat Gramin Bank
  • Saurashtra Gramin Bank

Haryana

  • Sarva Haryana Gramin Bank

Himachal Pradesh

  • Himachal Pradesh Gramin Bank

Jammu and Kashmir

  • J&K Grameen Bank
  • Ellaquai Dehati Bank

Jharkhand

Karnataka

Kerala

Madhya Pradesh

Maharashtra

Manipur

  • Manipur Rural Bank

Meghalaya

  • Meghalaya Rural Bank

Mizoram

Nagaland

  • Nagaland Rural Bank

Odisha

Puducherry

Punjab

  • Punjab Gramin Bank

Rajasthan

  • Baroda Rajasthan Kshetriya Gramin Bank
  • Rajasthan Marudhara Gramin Bank

Tamil Nadu

  • Tamil Nadu Grama Bank

Telangana

  • Telangana Grameena Bank

Tripura

Uttar Pradesh

Uttarakhand

West Bengal

Nationalized insurance companies

Currently there are 7 Nationalized Insurance Companies (Government Shareholding power denoted in %, as of 1 April 2020):

Nationalized Market exchanges

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List of State PSUs

Gujarat

Kerala

Tamil Nadu

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