The Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas after reviewing the international prices of crude oil and petroleum products during the 2nd Fortnight of December 2012 has reported that in first fortnight of January (effective 01.01.2013) under-recovery on High Speed Diesel decreased to Rs 9.03 per litre from the Rs 9.28 per litre in 2nd fortnight in December. In case of Domestic LPG, the under-recovery for January 2013 remains unchanged at Rs 490.50 cylinder. The under-recovery on PDS Kerosene, too, has remained at same level of Rs 30.64 per litre for January 2013.
The Domestic LPG under-recovery in 2nd fortnight declined to Rs 490.50 from Rs 520.50 in 1st fortnight of December. The Under-recovery on PDS Kerosene decreased to Rs 30.64 per litre in 2nd fortnight of December 2012 from 30.93 in 1st fortnight. An additional subsidy of Rs 0.82/litre on PDS Kerosene and Rs 22.58/Cylinder on Domestic LPG is provided by the Government.
The analysis cell has further reported that under-recovery for December on Domestic LPG, and PDS Kerosene remain high and oil marketing companies are currently (effective from 1stJanuary 2013) incurring daily under-recovery of about Rs 389 crore on the sale of Diesel, PDS Kerosene and Domestic LPG. This was Rs 420 crore per day for the previous fortnight effective 16.12.2012. Though, crude oil price for Indian Basket went down to $ 108.46 per barrel on 31.12.2012.
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