India, June 17 -- Despite the pandemic stress, the government is set to see a windfall from dividend earnings from its holdings in listed public sector undertakings. Data of PSUs that have already announced their dividends for the entire FY21 shows that not only have dividends increased to at least five-year high, aggregate net profit of the state-owned companies has also climbed in the year ending March 2021. The government mopped up Rs.26,104.37 crore as dividend from 23 listed PSU companies in FY21, a 123.63% rise from Rs.11672.81 crore in earlier fiscal, data sourced from Capitaline showed. In the previous two years, dividends drawn by the government from these companies had fallen 42% in FY19 and slipped 22% in FY20. The review includes only BSE 500 companies, roughly 90% of India's total market capitalisation.P9...