BEL pays Rs 360 million interim dividend to government

March 19, 2015: Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has paid an Interim Dividend of Rs. 36,00,95,154 to the Government of India for the year 2014-15 .

S K Sharma, CMD, BEL, presented the Interim Dividend cheque to the Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar, at New Delhi on March 18, 2015. BEL has declared 60 per cent per cent Interim Dividend (Rs. 6/- per share) to its shareholders for the year 2014-15.

This is the 11^th consecutive year that BEL is paying Interim Dividend. The Company had paid 233 per cent Dividend in the previous year 2013-14 (60 per cent Interim Dividend in February, 2014 and 173 per cent Final Dividend in October, 2014.