Govt extends deadline for FSNL strategic sale
Live MintNEW DELHI: The department of investment and public asset management has extended the last date for submission of bids for strategic disinvestment of Ferro Scrap Nigam Ltd., a 100% subsidiary of MSTC Ltd., under the ministry of steel, by a month to June 6, and has clarified that the company is in the process of getting its existing contracts extended. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs had in October 2016 given ‘in-principle’ approval to disinvest entire equity shareholding held through MSTC in FSNL, through strategic disinvestment and transfer of management control. FSNL is a Mini Ratna II CPSE, a 100% subsidiary of MSTC, incorporated in 1979 to provide steel mill services including processing steel mills slag for recovery of iron scrap and other metallics. The company has nine steel plants in India, and specialises in the recovery and processing of scrap from slag and refuse generated during iron and steel making across different steel plants.