India’s government surpassed its disinvestment and asset monetisation targets for 2025-26, signalling increased activity and a more ambitious plan for asset recycling ahead of the 2026-27 budget.
India’s government has collected ₹45,306.05 crore from disinvestment and asset monetisation in 2025-26, beating the revised estimate for the year and giving the Centre a stronger-than-expected finish to a revenue line that has often fallen short in recent budgets, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary told the Lok Sabha on Monday.
According to Chaudhary’s written reply, the total included ₹16,885.56 crore from disinvestment and ₹28,420.49 crore from asset monetisation. The revised estimate for miscellaneous capital receipts in 2025-26 had been ₹33,837 crore, while the Budget for 2026-27 has lifted the target sharply to ₹80,000 crore, reflecting a more ambitious stance on stake sales and the recycling of public assets.
Business Standard reported earlier this year that the larger target for 2026-27 was meant to be met through a mix of PSU share sales and monetisation structures such as infrastructure investment trusts and real estate investment trusts. The same report said the second phase of the National Monetisation Pipeline aims to unlock far larger sums from public assets over the next few years, with power projects, highways, ports and railway-linked assets all in view.
The latest figures suggest the government has accelerated activity after several years of uneven receipts. Businessline’s data show disinvestment collections rose from ₹10,163 crore in 2024-25 to ₹16,886 crore in 2025-26, while the broader FY27 pipeline has already gathered pace, with Informist reporting that stake sales early in the year had surpassed the full-year FY26 total. That momentum may help the Centre, but the gap between actual proceeds and the new ₹80,000 crore goal still leaves a sizeable task ahead.
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