BSE NSE Portfolio Tracker Login Password Forget Password New users Click here to register. And some of them have honed the skill to a fine art. Leading these worthies is the current Union minister for petroleum and natural gas. Never a step out of the limelight for even a week, particularly in his home city, the minister has topped it all by releasing his annual report this week. With no less than 55 pictures of the honourable mantriji, the report features him on inaugural sprees where he's caught laying foundation stones all over the country.
Oil companies admit they have to rack their brains for projects to be unveiled by the dignitary.
The minister is credited with several firsts. He made IndianOil lay its first water pipeline late last year. Of course, the oil company was glad to do its bit for social good, so what if the said pipeline happened to be in the mantriji's constituency. Other firsts to his credit also include making oil exploration and production company ONGC diversify into power. Under the minister's benign guidance, India's biggest oil company undertook the electrification of Arnala Fort.