No plans to sell non-core assets, sale of real estate on cards: PNB Chief

PNB has a number of associates like PNB Housing Finance Ltd with 32.65 per cent stake and PNB MetLife with 30 per cent shares

There are no plans to sell non-core assets, including subsidiaries, in the current financial year, Punjab National Bank managing director S S Mallikarjuna Rao has said.

However, the bank intends to sell some of its real estate assets and properties, including its old headquarter building, he told PTI in an interview.

"We have a lot of real estate assets because of the merger. We are planning to sell some of them. We are planning to sell a good amount of these assets by the end of the third quarter provided the market is available. We will be not selling at