To see light Govt shares

Deadlines to face 21 enterprises.

As a breakthrough in offloading shares of state-owned enterprises finally came, the wait for government shares is likely to end soon. The government set deadlines for 21 SoEs. The offloading schedule is below:

Sl.	Name of Company	Deadlines	Offloading Share (%)
01.	Meghna Petroleum	27 February, 2011	17%
02.	Jamuna Oil Company	do	17%
03.	Titas	March 2011	15%
04.	Desco	do	15%
05.	Bangladesh Shipping Corporation	do	17.5
06.	Liquefied Petroleum Gas	do
07.	Sheraton Hotel	31 March, 2011	20%
08.	Telephone Shilpa Sangstha	April, 2011
09.	CNG Company	do
10.	Progoti	June, 2011
11.	Chittagong Dry Dock	do
12.	Bangladesh Biman	do
13.	Essential Drugs	do
14.	Bangladesh Cable	do
15.	Sonargaon Hotel	do
16.	Bakhrabad Gas Transmission and Distribution	July, 2011
17.	Teletalk	September, 2011
18.	BTCL	do
19.	Karnaphuli Paper Mills	December, 2011

Shares of Padma Oil will not be offloaded as already 50 percent of its shares are on the market. Rural Power Co's shares will not be sold, as its 79 percent shares are held by different samities (associations). The government has also decided not to offload Bangabandhu Bridge, saying that its shares will be sold along with the Padma Bridge.The plan for offloading the shares of different sugar mills and a blade factory was dropped from the list.