As many as 20 central public sector enterprises and their units are at various stages of strategic disinvestment, while six are being considered for closure or are under litigation, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Singh Thakur said on Monday.
The department of investment and public asset management is scouting for investment bankers and legal advisors to carry forward the transactions.
This will encompass the sale of Air India, a number of other privatisation initiatives, mergers, initial public offerings, the Centre's two exchange-traded funds, buybacks and offers-for-sale, and even monetisation of land assets.
He also expressed doubts about fairness in a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into alleged corruption in the DDCA.
Bank shares were the top gainer in early trades with Bank of Baroda up over 4%.
Kirti Azad, a known detractor of Jaitley, egged on the Congress to seek a time-bound SIT probe.
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