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The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on disinvestment, headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, met today and decided about the stake sale.
"EGoM met today and the notice to exchanges will be given today evening and OFS wil come day after tomorrow. Government wil divest 12.5% stake," Disinvestment Secretary Ravi Mathur told reporters here.
The Finance Ministry is considering to sell 12.5% stake, or 6.89 crore shares, of the company through the Offer For Sale (OFS) route.
Shares of RCF were trading up 2.14% at Rs 45.25, on the BSE at 1020 hrs today.
Sources said the government could raise between Rs 250-300 crore from the stake sale.
The government holds 92.5% stake in RCF and the paid up capital of the company is Rs 551.69 crore.
The Cabinet had in December approved the stake sale of RCF.
The stake sale would help the government inch closer to the disinvestment target for the current fiscal. As per the revised estimates, the government is likely to raise Rs 24,000 crore through disinvestment in the current fiscal, lower than the budgeted Rs 30,000 crore.
So far this fiscal, it has raised over Rs 21,500 crore.
In the remaining weeks of the fiscal ending March 31, the Finance Ministry plans to sell stake in three more companies -- MMTC, SAIL and NALCO.
