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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | How Govt Milking of Cash Cow LIC is Endangering India's Most Trusted Life Insurer -Praneta Jha

How Govt Milking of Cash Cow LIC is Endangering India's Most Trusted Life Insurer -Praneta Jha

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published Published on Oct 30, 2018   modified Modified on Oct 30, 2018
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Govt is repeatedly turning to LIC for its disinvestment agenda. The insurer's NPAs have doubled since the Modi regime took over, and now there is the possibility of it bailing out debt-ridden IL&FS.

Since 2014, the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has spent, at least, Rs 48,000 crore so that the Narendra Modi government can meet its disinvestment targets.

Meanwhile, the non-performing assets (NPAs) of the country?s largest insurer have doubled in this period.

For decades, millions of middle- and lower middle-class Indians have associated the name of LIC ? a central public sector enterprise set up in 1956 ? with trust and reliability. The company has nearly 41 crore policyholders (including individual and group policyholders) as on March 31, 2018.

While the sums assured by its policies (including accrued bonuses) carry sovereign guarantee, the policyholders also expect LIC to invest their premiums in prudent long-term investments that give good returns.

LIC is one of the cash-richest companies in India ? with an annual investible surplus of Rs 3-3.5 lakh crore that it invests in a vast array of companies, in both public and private sectors. As a long-term investor, it has made good returns on its investments in the past.

But LIC?s good health has increasingly become a bane for the company, as successive governments ? earlier the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance and now the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in an unprecedented manner ? have used LIC as a cash cow and milked it.

Not only have LIC?s funds been used repeatedly by government to rescue other troubled companies, but the Modi government is using LIC to bail itself out more than anything else ? to meet its fiscal deficit targets through the destructive sleight of hand known as disinvestment.

But before we delve briefly into the logic behind disinvestment ? the Modi government has set itself a disinvestment target of Rs 80,000 crore for 2018-19 ? let us look at what has become of LIC.

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Newsclick.in, 29 October, 2018, https://www.newsclick.in/how-govt-milking-cash-cow-lic-endangering-indias-most-trusted-life-insurer?fbclid=IwAR2uBUdmKTeaajYdLpHh3XY55mJU8O7uany6Ou_HkUy8OZ_MlWqLhyEJSZM


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