Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) has paid a total dividend of Rs 168.01 crore to Assam government for the financial year 2017-18 on Friday.
The final dividend cheque of Rs 22.71 crore was handed over to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal by NRL Managing Director S K Barua in presence of Directors and senior officials of the company, a company release said here.
This dividend is against its equity shareholding of 12.35 per cent in the company and is in addition to the interim dividend of Rs 145.31 crore handed over to the state government in 2017-18.