The government has planned to pay Rs 25,000 crore additional cash subsidy to state-owned fuel retailers to cover for their losses incurred in this fiscal for selling auto and cooking fuel below cost. So far in this fiscal, the government has already provided Rs 55,000 crore to state-owned fuel retailers that include Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL), Indian Oil Corp (IOC) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) to cover the part of the revenue they lost on selling diesel, domestic LPG and kerosene at government controlled rates which were way below the cost. These three firms are together projected to end the 2012-13 fiscal with an under-recovery or revenue loss of Rs 161,343 crore on sale of diesel and cooking fuel.
The government is committed to insulate the common man from the impact of rise in international oil prices and domestic inflationary condition by providing essential fuels, particularly cooking fuels at affordable prices.
However, in order to reduce the subsidy burden, the government has decided to increase the price of diesel in the range of 40-50 paise per litre per month; sell diesel to bulk consumers at non-subsidised market determined price and restrict the supply of 14.2 kg domestic LPG cylinders to 9 per consumer per annum. Despite these measures, currently, the under-recoveries for the fuel retailers are Rs 8.64 per litre for diesel, Rs 33.43 per litre for kerosene and Rs 439 per cylinder for domestic LPG. Presently, the oil marketing companies are losing Rs 407 crore per day on fuel sales.
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