Bangalore, Feb 28, 2013:
Navratna defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has declared 60 per cent interim dividend (Rs six per share) to its shareholders for 2012-13.
Mr Anil Kumar, Chairman and Managing Director, BEL, presented the Interim Dividend cheque, payable to the Government, for Rs.36,41,37,600 to the Defence Minister, Mr A K Antony, at New Delhi on February 27, 2013.
This is the ninth consecutive year that BEL is paying interim dividend. The company paid 208 per cent dividend in 2011-12 (100 per cent interim dividend in February, 2012, and 108 per cent final dividend in October, 2012).
