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NLMC - Monetising Surplus Government Land
The National Land Monetization Corporation, or NLMC, is a central government company created to draw money out of public property that sits idle: it helps central public sector enterprises and other arms of government put land and buildings they no longer need to commercial use. Its board of directors, meeting for the twenty-first time on 18 September 2026, recommended monetisation proposals covering assets worth more than Rs 5,000 crore.
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Covers the National Land Monetization Corporation for the first time: what the Finance Ministry's land-monetisation company does, how it differs from the National Monetisation Pipeline, and the proposals worth over Rs 5,000 crore its board recommended on 18 September 2026.
- NLMC
- National Land Monetization Corporation
- asset monetisation
- Department of Public Enterprises
- surplus land
- CPSE
- Ministry of Finance
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