Govt sanctions additional Rs 15,000 crore subsidies for oil marketing cos

20 Mar 2012 Evaluate

In its bid to bring down state-owned Oil marketing companies’ (OMCs) losses that they incur on selling fuel below cost to some extent, the finance ministry decided to give additional subsidy of Rs 15,000 crore for 2011-12 to the oil firms. This compensation is over and above Rs 15,000 crore sanctioned for meeting losses of first quarter ending June 30.

With this, the oil subsidy bill is set to touch over Rs 68,600 crore during current financial year. This is almost half of the total under recovery of Rs 1.37 lakh crore estimated. The OMCs have registered under- recoveries of around Rs 21,374 crore in the July- September quarter and the upstream oil companies like Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Oil India (OIL) are likely to bear good one third or Rs 7,124 crore of the total under- recoveries while the Finance Ministry was asked to make the rest Rs 14,250 crore.

Besides, in the third set of supplementary demands for grants tabled in Parliament on Monday, March 19, 2012, along with additional subsidies for OMCs, the fertilizer industry too was sanctioned an additional subsidy of over Rs 7,200 crore for 2011-12. The total fertilizer subsidy has touched nearly Rs 71,000 crore.

The government has sought approval from Parliament for additional net cash spending of over Rs 42,605 crore during the current financial year ending March 31. However, this additional net cash outgo is unlikely to impact the revised estimate of expenditure given in the Budget tabled on March 16. While the Government's gross additional spending is pegged at Rs 4.30 lakh crore in the third supplementary, Rs 3.87 lakh crore will be generated through enhanced receipts and recoveries.

 

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