Budget 2024 Disinvestment Expectations: Will it be curtains for strategic sale of public assets under Modi 3.0?

Budget 2024 Expectations: The Modi government, in its first Budget of the third term, is anticipated to adhere to the disinvestment target set in the interim Budget for this fiscal year. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has pegged the target for 2024-25 at Rs 50,000 crore. However, the disinvestment estimate for 2023-24, presented in the Interim Budget in February, was revised downward to Rs 30,000 crore from the originally budgeted Rs 51,000 crore.