Railways, Department of Posts, AAI not to be privatised under PSE policy

Public sector enterprises in the nature of development and regulatory authorities, autonomous organisations, trusts, development financing institutions would also be out of the policy

Government departments, such as Railways, Posts, Airports Authority of India, major port trusts, and those that undertake commercial operations with development mandate, will not come under the ambit of the new PSU privatisation policy announced in the Union Budget 2021-22.
 
Public sector enterprises acting as regulatory authorities, autonomous organisations, trusts, and development financing institutions will also be out the ambit, according to the details of the policy.
 
The policy divides public sector enterprises into strategic and non-strategic ones. The strategic sector includes atomic energy, space and defence, transport and telecommunications, power, petroleum, coal and other minerals, and banking,