Web Sify
Follow us on
Sify.com » Topics » Budget 4
Budget 4 News
Govt may pay around $6.8 bln more in fuel subsidy - source
Govt may pay around $6.8 bln more in fuel subsidy: source
India is likely to pay an additional around 300 billion rupees ($6.8 billion) than budgeted in 2011/12 to state refiners as compensation towards selling fuel at subsidised rates, a senior government official with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday. Upstream companies and explorers - Oil and Natural Gas Corp, Oil India Ltd and GAIL - have to sell crude oil and products at a discount