BEL OFS got an enthusiastic participation both from retail and the non-retail investors including domestic institutional investors and foreign institutional investors; BEL Issue got over-subscribed by 367 % in Retail Category and 234% in Non-retail Category; Government of India is likely to get the receipt of Rs. 1670 crore (approx.) from BEL OFS issue.
The Government of India proposed to disinvest 5% of paid-up equity capital-out of its shareholding of 74.41% in BEL through Offer for Sale (OFS) mechanism. BEL is a Navratna Company under the administrative control of Ministry of Defence and is engaged in manufacturing of the state of the art equipments in the field such as communication, radars, naval systems etc.