NEW DELHI, Sept 9: Country’s largest thermal power producer NTPC has paid a dividend of Rs 4,741.16 crore to the government for the financial year 2013-14.
“The company had paid interim dividend amounting to Rs 3,298.19 crore on February 10, 2014. Today, the company has paid the final dividend of Rs 1,442.97 crore,” NTPC said in a statement.
This is the 21st consecutive year that NTPC has paid dividend.
NTPC has been paying dividend since 1993-94 and has paid Rs 37,000 crore since then of which the government’s share was Rs 32,000 crore.
Presently the equity of government is Rs 6,180 crore.