The Reserve Bank of India has today notified that Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs)/Registered Foreign Portfolios Investors (RFPIs) can now invest up to 49 per cent of the paid up capital of M/s Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. under the Portfolio Investment Scheme (PIS).

The Reserve Bank has stated that the company has passed resolutions at its Board of Directors’ level and a special resolution by the shareholders, agreeing for enhancing the limit for the purchase of its equity shares by FIIs/RFPIs. The purchases could be made through primary market and stock exchanges.

The Reserve Bank has notified this under FEMA 1999.

Sangeeta Das
Director

Press Release:2015-2016/2854