{"id":264461,"date":"2023-10-14T13:06:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T13:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=264461"},"modified":"2023-10-14T13:27:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T13:27:23","slug":"indian-railways-psus-rites-ltd-and-ircon-granted-navratna-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-railways-psus-rites-ltd-and-ircon-granted-navratna-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways\u2019 PSUs, RITES Ltd and IRCON granted Navratna status"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Indian Railways\u2019 PSUs, RITES Ltd and IRCON granted Navratna status<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>\u201cPIB\u201d on 14th October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ircon International Limited (IRCON) and RITES Ltd(RITES) have been announced as 15<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and 16<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navratna respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are both Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) under the Ministry of Railways.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Navratna Status?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government of India had introduced the \u2018Navratna\u2019 status in 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To identify Central Public Sector Enterprises(CPSEs) that had comparative advantages and to support them in their drive to become global giants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Criteria:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CPSEs fulfilling the following criteria are eligible to be considered for grant of Navaratna status:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Having Schedule &#8216;A&#8217; and Miniratna Category-1 status.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Having <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">obtained an \u2018excellent\u2019 or \u2018very good\u2019 MOU rating in three of the last five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Having a composite score of 60 or above in six selected performance indicators such as Net Profit to Net worth, Manpower Cost to total Cost of Production, Earning Per Share among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Benefits of Getting Navratna Status:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Fi<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nancial independence to invest up to \u20b91,000 crore without seeking approval from the central government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Can invest up to 15% of their net worth on a single project or 30% of their net worth in a given year, subject to a cap of \u20b91,000 crore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Navratna CPSEs: 1) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bharat Electronics Limited 2) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Container Corporation of India Limited 3) Engineers India Limited 4) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hindustan Aeronautics Limited 5) Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited 6) National Aluminium Company Limited 7) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NBCC (India) Limited 8) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NMDC Limited <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9) NLC India Limited 10) Oil India Limited 11) Power Finance Corporation Limited 12) Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited 13) Rural Electrification Corporation Limited 14) Shipping Corporation of India Limited 15) Ircon International Limited (IRCON) and 16) RITES Ltd(RITES).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Maharatna Status?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/power-finance-corp-set-to-be-indias-11th-maharatna-cpse\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndian Railways\u2019 PSUs, RITES Ltd and IRCON granted Navratna status\u201d published in \u201cPIB\u201d on 14th October 2023 What is the News? Ircon International Limited (IRCON) and RITES Ltd(RITES) have been announced as 15th and 16th Navratna respectively. These are both Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) under the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-railways-psus-rites-ltd-and-ircon-granted-navratna-status\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian Railways\u2019 PSUs, RITES Ltd and IRCON granted Navratna status<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,1566,3127,9],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-264461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":16,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698473258},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}