Bharat Electronics, a Navratna Defence Public Sector Undertaking (DPSU), has paid interim dividend of 140 percent on its paid-up capital to the Government for financial year (FY) 2020-21.
Chairman & Managing Director of BEL, M V Gowtama presented the Interim Dividend cheque of Rs 174,43,63,569.20/- (Rupees one hundred seventy-four crore forty-three lakh sixty-three thousand five hundred sixty-nine and twenty paise only), payable on the shares held by the President of India, to the Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh in New Delhi. The BEL has declared 140 percent as interim dividend (Rs 1.40/- per share) to its shareholders for the FY 2020-21.
This is the 18th consecutive year that BEL is paying interim dividend. It had paid a total dividend of 280 per cent on its paid-up capital for the FY 2019-20.
