Lok Sabha Question No. 2666 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-12
Subject: COCO by Company Officials
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: GOKARAJU GANGA RAJU

## COCO BY COMPANY OFFICIALS

2666. DR. GOKARAJU GANGA RAJU :

पेट्रोल ियम एवं प्राक ृ तिक गैस मंत्री

Will the Minister of PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether it is a fact that the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) are in practice of running Company Owned Company Operated (COCO) petrol pumps through company officials;
- (b) if so, the details thereof along with the reaction of the Government thereto regarding viability of the said preposition indicating the investments made by OMCs; and
- (c) the number of such COCO Petrol Pumps being operated/managed by Company officials in the country, State/ UT-wise and OMC-wise?

## ANSWER

पेट्रोल ियम एवं प्राक ृ तिक गैस मंत्री (श्री धमेन्द्र प्रधान)

## MINISTER OF PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS (SHRI DHARMENDRA PRADHAN)

(a)&(b)  -  Oil  Marketing  Companies  (OMCs)  operate  some  of  their  strategic  retail outlets in the country on Company Owned Company Operated (COCOs) basis. The day  to  day  operations  of  such  COCOs  are  under  the  supervision  of  a  Company Official.  The  staff  on  the  forecourt  is  provided  by  the  Service  Provider  who  is  on tenure-based contract with the OMCs.

Investment made by OMCs in these COCOs depends on factors  like market type (urban/highway),  plot  dimensions,  allied  customer  amenities,  sales  potential  of  the site,  facilities/equipments  planned  etc.  These  investments  are  made  based  on  the benchmark Internal Rate of Return (IRR) norms.

- (c) The  State-wise/UT-wise details of permanent COCOs Retail Outlets being operated by company officials as on 01.01.2018 is given in the Annexure.

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## Annexure referred to in reply to part (c) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.2666 for 12.3.2018 asked by Dr. Gokaraju Ganga Raju, Hon`ble MP regarding COCO by Company Officials.

## Details of State/UT wise and OMC wise COCO Petrol Pumps operated/managed by OMCs as on 01.01.2018

| States             |   BPCL |   IOCL |   HPCL |
|--------------------|--------|--------|--------|
| Andaman & Nicobar  |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Andhra Pradesh     |     23 |      7 |     24 |
| Arunachal Pradesh  |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Assam              |      1 |      0 |      0 |
| Bihar              |      6 |      2 |      0 |
| Chandigarh         |      1 |      1 |      1 |
| Chattisgarh        |      4 |      2 |      4 |
| Dadra Nagar Haveli |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Daman & Diu        |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Delhi              |      4 |      5 |      3 |
| Goa                |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Gujarat            |     11 |      3 |     24 |
| Haryana            |      7 |      3 |      7 |
| Himachal Pradesh   |      0 |      0 |      1 |
| Jammu & Kashmir    |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Jharkhand          |      4 |      1 |      0 |
| Karnataka          |     14 |     14 |      8 |
| Kerala             |     12 |      3 |      2 |
| Lakshadweep        |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Madhya Pradesh     |      7 |      1 |      7 |
| Maharashtra        |     27 |      8 |     27 |
| Manipur            |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Meghalaya          |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Mizoram            |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Nagaland           |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Odisha             |      7 |      3 |      5 |
| Puducherry         |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Punjab             |      5 |      6 |      7 |
| Rajasthan          |     20 |      4 |      9 |
| Sikkim             |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Tamil Nadu         |     18 |     11 |     17 |
| Telangana          |     11 |      7 |     13 |
| Tripura            |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| Uttar Pradesh      |     17 |      7 |     17 |
| Uttrakhand         |      1 |      0 |      0 |
| West Bengal        |     10 |     17 |      6 |
| All-India          |    210 |    105 |    182 |