CAG raps govt for bending rules for RIL

Last Updated: Monday, June 13, 2011, 16:21

Tags: RIL, CAG, Reliance

New Delhi: The CAG has rapped the Oil Ministry and its technical arm DGH charging it with favouring Reliance Industries, but did not say if the Mukesh Ambani firm overbilled the government when it more than doubled KG-D6 gas field cost and caused loss to state exchequer.

The CAG in its draft audit report of KG-D6 block said the ministry and the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons(DGH) allowed Reliance to raise cost of developing the nation's largest gas fields by 117 percent.

It said rules were also bent to grant "huge benefits" to Reliance when the ministry allowed the company to retain entire block but said gains cannot be quantified.

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First Published: Monday, June 13, 2011, 16:21

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kasiviswanath - dubai
ask thme verify panna field agreement

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Corgi - New Delhi
i remember when the panna mukta gas fields were going to be handed over to the reliance company (that was probably some ten years ago), a bureaucrat by name mohapatra was asked to examine and evaluate the issue and advise the government. there was pressure on him to approve the deal,but he was reluctant. mohapatra met a mysterious death, probably was murdered. my memory is fairly good, but the news that i had kept on my computer at that time is lost, unfortunately, because of a hard-disk crash. some other reader may perhaps have full records.