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PC house decides to re-start PIA privatisation process
- Updated: November 3, 2017
PIA planes. PHOTO: EXPRESS
ISLAMABAD: In a vital routine shift, a Privatisation Commission (PC) house on Thursday motionless to reinitiate a routine of privatising Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and all energy era and placement companies.
The PC house also authorized a Rs141.4-billion liabilities allotment devise of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) employees, National Bank of Pakistan and Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) by giving divided PSM land.
It motionless to entice uninformed bids for employing financial advisers to sell supervision shares in Mari Petroleum Limited.
The decisions, if permitted by a Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCOP), will revitalise a privatisation programme that had mislaid steam in mid-2015 when a afterwards primary apportion Nawaz Sharif stopped a vital sale of these entities following vigour from domestic circles and work unions.
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The decisions of a PC board, that met underneath a chairmanship of Privatisation Minister Daniyal Aziz, were in line with a meditative of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.
If a CCOP endorses a newly concluded privatisation programme, it might assistance in negotiations with a International Monetary Fund for a new bailout package, sources said.
The privatisation of PIA and energy companies is a unprepared bulletin of a prior IMF bailout of $6.2 billion.
Power sector
The PC house motionless to stop a inventory of a Gujranwala Electric Power Company during a Pakistan Stock Exchange. Instead, all energy era and placement companies might be privatised by handing over their supervision control to a private sector.
In a initial phase, Northern Power Generation Company Limited, Faisalabad Electricity Supply Company and Islamabad Electricity Supply Company might be privatised.
In Oct 2013, a PML-N supervision had motionless to privatise a energy companies and hired financial advisers to finish technical studies. But in Nov 2015, it halted a routine and started work on divesting shares in energy placement companies during a batch market.
Its purpose was to urge corporate governance and strengthen accountability, though a conditions serve run-down in these entities, pronounced Aziz while articulate to The Express Tribune.
The apportion pronounced a PC house endorsed that a supervision should again start a vital sale of these entities. Aziz pronounced even a International Finance Corporation, an arm of a World Bank, had suggested that share divestment was a sub-optimal choice for Pakistan.
The apportion pronounced a CCOP would shortly accommodate underneath a chairmanship of primary apportion to cruise a PC board’s decisions.
PIA
The house motionless to sell infancy interest in PIA to private parties, requesting a supervision to rectify a PIA law that barred send of tenure to private hands.
A corner event of council had upheld a PIAC Conversion Act 2016 whereby a entity was converted into a open singular company.
Under vigour from a PPP, a supervision extrinsic sub-section 4 into Section 4 of a PIAC Act that restricts a sovereign supervision from transferring supervision of a airline and binds it to keep 51% shares in PIA.
The privatisation apportion pronounced a PC house endorsed that this territory contingency be nice to pave a approach for PIA privatisation. Despite creation efforts, PIA’s affairs had not softened and a supervision had started shutting a routes, he said. On Wednesday, a ECC authorized a Rs13.6-billion bailout package for PIA.
PSM
The apportion pronounced a PC house also endorsed a allotment of PSM’s superb liabilities. He pronounced a sovereign supervision would not sell a provincial supervision land and usually a PSM land would be sold.
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In Jan this year, a PC house had motionless to give PSM on a 30-year franchise though that compulsory a allotment of all superb liabilities. The transaction manager has finalised a allotment plan. PSM has 19,013 acres of land.
PSM needs Rs47.8 billion to settle liabilities of a employees on comment of grant and gratuity. SSGC’s superb gas bills are estimated during Rs41 billion and NBP loans stood during Rs52.6 billion.
In further to that, a sovereign supervision has also given Rs42.6-billion financing to PSM.
In Aug 2015, a PC house endorsed to sell 75% interest in PSM. But a CCOP motionless to offer a entity to a Sindh government. The Privatisation Commission claimed that Sindh did not respond to a offer.
The sovereign cupboard has now motionless that any celebration can acquire, including a Sindh government, PSM by rival process, pronounced a privatisation minister.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 3rd, 2017.
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