Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) has signed an agreement with World Bank on Monday, said government. "Under the agreement, World Bank is to provide advisory services to DIPAM for asset monetization," said Ministry of Finance in an official release. DIPAM is mandated with facilitating monetization of non-core assets of government CPSEs under strategic disinvestment or closure and enemy property of value of ₹100 crore and above. DIPAM has a framework for monetizing non-core assets. The World Bank advisory project, approved by the Finance Minister, is aimed at analyzing public asset monetization in India and benchmarking its institutional and business models against international best practices as well as supporting development of operational guidelines and capacity building for their implementation.

Source: Mint November 16, 2020 13:17 UTC