India plans to sell 20 per cent of the state-run Power Grid Corp, the country’s largest electricity transmission company, in a public offer estimated to be worth $1.8bn. New Delhi aims to reduce the country’s huge fiscal deficit through selling stakes in a series of state owned companies such as Indian Oil, the Steel Authority of India and Coal India.

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