Lok Sabha Question No. 72 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-02-03
Subject: Setting up of New Petrol Pumps
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: Manne Srinivas Reddy

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 72

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 3 rd  FEBRUARY, 2020

## Setting up of New Petrol Pumps

## 72. SHRI MANNE SRINIVAS REDDY:

पेट्रोल ियम एवं प्राक ृ तिक गैस मंत्री

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

- (a) the details of petrol pumps in the country, State-wise with special reference to Telangana;
- (b) whether any assessment has been made to know the number of petrol pumps in the country, if so, the details thereof, State-wise;
- (c) whether it is true that OMCs have decided to set up 65,000 petrol pumps in the country, if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) whether focus would be made to set up petrol pumps in rural areas and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

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

- (a) The details of State-wise number of Retail Outlets (ROs) of Public Sector  Oil  Marketing  Companies  (OMCs)  including  in  Telangana State as on 01.01.2020 are at Annexure.
- (b) to (d) Expansion  of  ROs  network  by  Public  Sector  OMCs  in  the  country including  in  the  Rural  and  Remote  areas  is  a  continuous  process. ROs are set up by Public Sector OMCs at identified locations based on field survey and feasibility studies. Locations found to be having sufficient potential as well as economically viable are rostered in the Marketing Plans for advertisement for setting up ROs.

Public Sector OMCs have issued advertisements for award of new Retail  Outlet  dealerships  on  25.11.2018  and  14.12.2018  on  pan India basis including in rural areas. Status of these advertisements as on 01.01.2020 are as below :-

|   Location advertised |   LOI issued |   RO Commissioned |
|-----------------------|--------------|-------------------|
|                 79312 |        18310 |              1815 |

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## Anneuxre referred to in reply to part (a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.72 for 3.2.2020 asked by Shri Manne Srinivas Reddy, MP regarding Setting up of New Petrol Pumps.

OMC : Number of existing Retail Outlets as on 01.01.2020

| STATES               |   OMC |
|----------------------|-------|
| Andaman & Nicobar    |    15 |
| Andhra Pradesh       |  3212 |
| Arunachal Pradesh    |    89 |
| Assam                |   860 |
| Bihar                |  2837 |
| Chandigarh           |    42 |
| Chhattisgarh         |  1354 |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli |    25 |
| Daman & Diu          |    28 |
| Delhi                |   394 |
| Goa                  |   118 |
| Gujarat              |  3237 |
| Haryana              |  2768 |
| Himachal Pradesh     |   466 |
| Jammu & Kashmir      |   525 |
| Jharkhand            |  1212 |
| Karnataka            |  4176 |
| Kerala               |  2059 |
| Lakshadweep          |     0 |
| Madhya Pradesh       |  3618 |
| Maharashtra          |  5706 |
| Manipur              |   122 |
| Meghalaya            |   208 |
| Mizoram              |    43 |
| Nagaland             |    75 |
| Odisha               |  1671 |
| Puducherry           |   154 |
| Punjab               |  3295 |
| Rajasthan            |  3948 |
| Sikkim               |    51 |
| Tamil Nadu           |  4988 |
| Telangana            |  2637 |
| Tripura              |    76 |

| Uttar Pradesh   |   7289 |
|-----------------|--------|
| Uttarakhand     |    586 |
| West Bengal     |   2343 |
| ALL-INDIA       |  60227 |