After approving a record Rs 100,000 crore towards diesel and cooking fuel subsidy in 2012-13, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said, cash payouts to oil firms for this financial year will be just Rs 20,000 crore. The government has budgeted only Rs 65,000 crore for fuel subsidy for this fiscal.
The three public-sector fuel retailers such as Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL), Indian Oil (IOC) and Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) lost Rs 161,029 crore in 2012-13 on selling domestic LPG, diesel and kerosene at government controlled rates which are way below market price. However, with Wednesday's Rs 45,000 crore, the government has committed to make good Rs 100,000 crore out of this. Another Rs 60,000 crore will be chipped in by upstream firms.
Meanwhile, there remained unmet under-recovery or revenue loss of about Rs 60,000 crore and the upstream firms are expected to chip in another Rs 15,000 crore, while 45,000 crore will come from finance ministry from this fiscal budget, leaving just Rs 20,000 crore. Also, upstream firms will be expected to chip in Rs 60,000 crore, equal to what they did in 2012-13.
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