Lok Sabha Question No. 54 (STARRED), answered on 2017-02-06
Subject: Allotment of Retail Outlets
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: KIRIT PREMJIBHAI SOLANKI

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.54

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 6 TH  FEBRUARY, 2017

## ALLOTMENT OF RETAIL OUTLETS

## *54.    DR. KIRIT P. SOLANKI :

पेट्रोलियम एवं प्राक ृ लिक गैस मंत्री

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

- (a)  the  extant  policy  governing  allotment  of  land  for  Retail  Outlets  (ROs)  to Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST) persons of the Oil Marketing Companies;
- (b)  whether  SC/ST  applicants  are  now  required  to  purchase  land  themselves  in  a deviation from the earlier policy;
- (c)  if so, the details thereof along with the number of applications for allotments of ROs to SC/ST candidates pending with the Government due to lack of availability of land, State/UT-wise; and
- (d) the corrective steps taken / being taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER

पेट्रोलियम एवं प्राक ृ लिक गैस मंत्रािय में राज्य मंत्री ( स्विंत्र प्रभार ) ( श्री धमेन्द्र प्रधान )

MINISTER  OF  STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS (SHRI DHARMENDRA PRADHAN)

- (a) to (d)  - A statement is laid on the table of the House.

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## STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  LOK  SABHA  STARRED QUESTION NO. 54 ASKED BY DR. KIRIT P. SOLANKI FOR ANSWER ON 06.02.2017 REGARDING ALLOTMENT OF RETAIL OUTLETS.

( a)  &  (b)  :  As  per  the  dealer  selection  policy,  the  land  offered  by  SC/ST candidates is taken on lease / purchased by the Oil Marketing Companies for setting up of the Retail Outlets (ROs). For ROs earmarked for SC/STs, the  OMCs  construct  the  RO  at  their  own  expenses  and  also  extend financial assistance for working capital requirement under the Corpus Fund Scheme.  So,  SC/ST  candidates  do  not  spend  any  money  for  land, construction  of  RO  and  working  capital.  There  is  no  compulsion  for purchasing land by SC/ST applicants.

(c) :  The State/UT-wise numbers of pending SC/ST Letter of Intents (LoIs) for allotments of retail outlets due to lack of availability of land  are given in Anneuxre-I.

(d)  :    The corrective steps taken by the Government in this regard are as follows :

- (i) Extension  of  time  limit  has  been  approved  by  MoPNG  for  a further period of 2 years i.e. upto 31-3-2018 or for a period of five years from date of issue of offer letter, whichever is later, to  the  pending  LOI  holders  of  SC/ST  and  other  eligible candidates  under  corpus  fund  scheme  to  arrange  land  at  a place  of  their  choice  anywhere  in  the  country  irrespective  of State/Class  of  market  subject  to  the  offered  land  meeting techno commercial viability norms  has been granted by MoPNG.
- (ii) In addition there is a policy of divestment of temporary COCO for  the  certain  categories  of  pending  LOI  holders  including SCs/STs.
- (iii) MoPNG  had  written  to  Chief  Ministers  of  all  States/UTs  to make  the  suitable  plots available  especially  for  SCs/STs categories for fuel retailing so that they could be preferentially allotted to SCs/STs  categories of allottees to meet the objective of social upliftment.

## Annexure referred to in reply to part (c) of Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 54 asked by Dr. Kirit P. Solanki, Hon`ble MP regarding 'Allotment of Retail Outlets'.

## INDUSTRY - State/UT-wise SC/ST category pending LOIs as on 01-01-2017

|   S.NO. | State / UT          |   SC |   ST |   TOTAL |
|---------|---------------------|------|------|---------|
|       1 | Andaman& Nicobar    |    0 |    0 |       0 |
|       2 | Andhra Pradesh      |   68 |   21 |      89 |
|       3 | Arunachal Pradesh   |    0 |    1 |       1 |
|       4 | Assam               |   21 |   31 |      52 |
|       5 | Bihar               |   77 |    4 |      81 |
|       6 | Chandigarh          |    0 |    0 |       0 |
|       7 | Chhattisgarh        |    8 |   30 |      38 |
|       8 | Dadra Nagar& Haveli |    0 |    1 |       1 |
|       9 | Daman& Diu          |    0 |    1 |       1 |
|      10 | Delhi               |    1 |    0 |       1 |
|      11 | Goa                 |   12 |    0 |      12 |
|      12 | Gujarat             |   48 |  100 |     148 |
|      13 | Haryana             |  122 |    1 |     123 |
|      14 | Himachal Pradesh    |   13 |    3 |      16 |
|      15 | Jammu & Kashmir     |   15 |   14 |      29 |
|      16 | Jharkhand           |   13 |   26 |      39 |
|      17 | Karnataka           |  111 |   41 |     152 |
|      18 | Kerala              |   54 |    5 |      59 |
|      19 | Lakshadweep         |    0 |    0 |       0 |
|      20 | Madhya Pradesh      |   98 |   69 |     167 |
|      21 | Maharashtra         |  179 |  110 |     289 |
|      22 | Manipur             |    0 |    2 |       2 |
|      23 | Meghalaya           |    1 |   11 |      12 |
|      24 | Mizoram             |    0 |   10 |      10 |
|      25 | Nagaland            |    0 |    3 |       3 |
|      26 | Odisha              |   38 |   32 |      70 |
|      27 | Puducheery          |    7 |    0 |       7 |
|      28 | Punjab              |   63 |    0 |      63 |
|      29 | Rajasthan           |  108 |   68 |     176 |
|      30 | Sikkim              |    1 |    4 |       5 |
|      31 | Tamil Nadu          |  112 |    4 |     116 |
|      32 | Telangana           |   90 |   36 |     126 |

| 33   | Tripura       |    1 |   0 |    1 |
|------|---------------|------|-----|------|
| 34   | Uttar Pradesh |  173 |   2 |  175 |
| 35   | Uttarakhand   |   28 |   2 |   30 |
| 36   | West Bengal   |   39 |   6 |   45 |
|      | TOTAL         | 1501 | 638 | 2139 |