Lok Sabha Question No. 2346 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-08
Subject: Allotment of Petrol Pumps/LPG Distribution Agency
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: Jasbir Singh Gill, Pankaj Chowdhary, Mukesh Rajput, Kanakmal Katara, Behanan Benny

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2346 TO BE ANSWERED ON 8 th  JULY, 2019

## Allotment of Petrol Pumps/LPG Distribution Agency

2346.

SHRI JASBIR SINGH GILL:

SHRI PANKAJ CHAUDHARY:

SHRI MUKESH RAJPUT:

SHRI KANAKMAL KATARA:

SHRI BENNY BEHANAN:

पेट्रोलियम एवं प्राक ृ लिक गैस मंत्री

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

- (a)  whether there is a Government  Personnel  Category  in  allotment of Petrol Pumps/LPG Distributorship and if so, the details thereof along with the percentage of retail outlets and LPG distributorship in which not a single application has been received under this category;
- (b)  whether  the  Government  has  any  scheme  to  allocate  petrol  pumps  to  those  who have adequate land at a good location for the petrol pump and if so, the details thereof along with the time by which the allocation of new petrol pumps would be completed in the country specially in Kerala;
- (c) the State/UT-wise details of the areas covered under CNG Network in the country at present  and  whether  the  Government  has  any  scheme  to  promote/  improve  CNG services in the country and if so, the details thereof along with the time by which CNG services are likely to be provided in the entire country; and
- (d) whether the Government proposes to set up CNG pumps in under-developed areas, towns and small cities and if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise and location-wise?

## ANSWER

पेट्रोलियम एवं प्राक ृ लिक गैस मंत्री (श्री धमेन्द्र प्रधान)

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

- (a) The  guidelines  for  selection  of  Retail  Outlet  (RO)  dealerships  and  LPG distributorships  have  a  provision  of  8%  reservation  under  Combined Category 1 (CC1) for RO and Government Personnel (GP) category for LPG  Distributorships  which  inter-alia  includes  Defence  Personnel,  Para Military Personnel / Central / State Government and Central / State PSU employees.  In  the  last  advertisement,  the  percentage  of  advertised locations for retail outlets and LPG distributorships in which no application is  received  under  CC1/GP  category  is  21.22%  (RO)  &  13.10%  (LPG) respectively.

| (b)     | OMCs have informed that applications are invited through press advertisement for setting up of RO dealership and availability of suitable land with the application is an eligibility criterion for selection. Further, allotment/setting up of RO involves various steps like advertisement, selection of dealers through draw/bidding, field verification of credentials, issue of LOI, procurement of land, obtaining necessary statutory approvals, construction, disposal of complaints. It takes on an average between six months to two year for setting up of ROs, depending on the location i.e. in Rural markets or on Highways. Currently, there is no provision for the direct allotment of dealers. OMCs have informed that as on 30.6.2019, they have issued 7841 Letter of Intents (LOIs) out of the total locations advertised in the last advertisements   |
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| (c)&(d) | Establishment of CNG Stations is part of development of City Gas Distribution (CGD) Network and the same is carried out by the entities authorized by Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) based on techno-commercial viability of area. So far, PNGRB has authorized 228 Geographical Areas (Gas) for development of CGD Network across the country till 10 th CGD Bidding Round. As on 30.3.2019, there are total 1742 CNG Stations in the country. State-wise details of CNG stations are given in Annexure-1 . With regard to proposed plan of Government to increase the number of CNG filling stations, it is informed that CGD entities have made commitment of total 8181 CNG stations as part of their work plan in various authorized GA`s. Details are given in Annexure-2 .                                                                       |

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## Annexure-I

## Annexure referred to in reply to part (c) & (d) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.2346 for 8.7.2019 asked by Shri Jasbir Singh Gill & Others, MPs regarding 'Allotment of Petrol Pumps/LPG Distribution Agency'.

## Number of Operational CNG Stations (Geographical Area wise) as on 31.03.2019

|   S.No | State/ Union Territory   | Geographical Area                                                  |   CNG Stations |
|--------|--------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------|
|      1 | Andhra Pradesh           | East Godavari District (excluding area already authorized)         |              5 |
|      2 | Andhra Pradesh           | Kakinada                                                           |              6 |
|      3 | Andhra Pradesh           | Krishna District (excluding area already authorized)               |              4 |
|      4 | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijaywada                                                          |             19 |
|      5 | Andhra Pradesh           | West Godavari District                                             |             10 |
|      6 | Goa                      | North Goa District                                                 |              5 |
|      7 | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad City and Daskroi Area                                    |             56 |
|      8 | Gujarat                  | Amreli District                                                    |              9 |
|      9 | Gujarat                  | Anand area including Kanjari & Vadtal Villages (in Kheda District) |              3 |
|     10 | Gujarat                  | Anand District (excluding area already authorized)                 |             16 |
|     11 | Gujarat                  | Banaskantha District                                               |             20 |
|     12 | Gujarat                  | Bhavnagar                                                          |             16 |
|     13 | Gujarat                  | Dahej Vagra Taluka                                                 |              2 |
|     14 | Gujarat                  | Dahod District                                                     |              8 |
|     15 | Gujarat                  | Gandhinagar Mehsana Sabarkantha                                    |             74 |
|     16 | Gujarat                  | Hazira                                                             |              1 |

|   17 |                | Jamnagar                                                                                         |   13 |
|------|----------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------|
|   18 |                | Kutch (West)                                                                                     |    9 |
|   19 |                | Nadiad                                                                                           |   22 |
|   20 |                | Navsari                                                                                          |   19 |
|   21 |                | Panchmahal District                                                                              |   17 |
|   22 |                | Patan District                                                                                   |   14 |
|   23 |                | Rajkot                                                                                           |   48 |
|   24 |                | Surat, Bharuch, Ankleshwar                                                                       |   97 |
|   25 |                | Surendranagar                                                                                    |    6 |
|   26 |                | Vadodara                                                                                         |   12 |
|   27 |                | Valsad                                                                                           |   22 |
|   28 |                | Narmada (Rajpipla) District                                                                      |    1 |
|   29 | Haryana        | Panipat District                                                                                 |    3 |
|   30 | Haryana        | Rewari District                                                                                  |   10 |
|   31 | Haryana        | Sonipat                                                                                          |   11 |
|   32 | Haryana        | Karnal District                                                                                  |    3 |
|   33 | Haryana        | Nuh and Palwal Distircts                                                                         |    2 |
|   34 | Karnataka      | Bengaluru Rural and Urban Districts                                                              |   22 |
|   35 | Karnataka      | Dharwad District                                                                                 |    1 |
|   36 | Kerala         | Ernakulam District                                                                               |    4 |
|   37 | Madhya Pradesh | Dewas                                                                                            |    3 |
|   38 | Madhya Pradesh | Gwalior                                                                                          |   10 |
|   39 | Madhya Pradesh | Indore (including Ujjain City)                                                                   |   29 |
|   40 | Maharashtra    | Mumbai & Greater Mumbai                                                                          |  135 |
|   41 | Maharashtra    | Palghar District & Thane Rural                                                                   |    6 |
|   42 | Maharashtra    | Pune District (Excluding area already authorized)                                                |    2 |
|   43 | Maharashtra    | Pune City including Pimpri - Chichwad & adjoining contigeneous areas Hinjewadi, Chakan, Talegaon |   67 |

|   44 |                                                       | Raigarh District (Excluding area already authorized)   |   10 |
|------|-------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|------|
|   45 |                                                       | Ratnagiri District                                     |    2 |
|   46 |                                                       | Thane urban and adjoining Municipalities               |   91 |
|   47 |                                                       | Amritsar District                                      |    3 |
|   48 |                                                       | Fatehgarh Sahib District                               |    3 |
|   49 | Punjab                                                | Jalandhar                                              |    3 |
|   50 |                                                       | Ludhiana                                               |    3 |
|   51 | Rajasthan                                             | Kota                                                   |    3 |
|   52 | Telangana                                             | Hyderabad                                              |   45 |
|   53 | Tripura                                               | Agartala                                               |    9 |
|   54 | Delhi (UT)                                            | NCT of Delhi                                           |  391 |
|   55 | Chandigarh (UT), Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh | Chandigarh                                             |    5 |
|   56 | Dadra & Nagar Haveli (UT)                             | UT of Dadra & Nagar Haveli                             |    3 |
|   57 | Diu & Daman (UT)                                      | UT of Daman                                            |    3 |
|   58 |                                                       | Agra                                                   |   20 |
|   59 |                                                       | Allahabad                                              |    4 |
|   60 |                                                       | Bareilly                                               |    9 |
|   61 |                                                       | Jhansi                                                 |    2 |
|   62 | Uttar Pradesh                                         | Kanpur                                                 |   29 |
|   63 |                                                       | Khurja                                                 |    1 |
|   64 |                                                       | Lucknow                                                |   29 |
|   65 |                                                       | Mathura                                                |    9 |
|   66 |                                                       | Meerut                                                 |   11 |
|   67 |                                                       | Moradabad                                              |    3 |
|   68 |                                                       | Saharanpur District                                    |    6 |
|   69 |                                                       | Varanasi District                                      |    3 |
|   70 | Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan                           | Firozabad (Taj Trapezium Zone)                         |   12 |

| 71    | Uttrakhand    | Haridwar District                                      | 2     |
|-------|---------------|--------------------------------------------------------|-------|
| 72    | Uttrakhand    | Udham Singh Nagar District                             | 1     |
| 73    | Odisha        | Khordha District                                       | 4     |
| 74    | Odisha        | Cuttack District                                       | 2     |
| 75    | Bihar         | Patna District                                         | 2     |
| 76    | Uttar Pradesh | Noida & Greater Noida                                  | 44    |
| 77    | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad                                              | 47    |
| 78    | Haryana       | Gurgaon                                                | 27    |
| 79    | Haryana       | Faridabad                                              | 15    |
| 80    | Gujarat       | Ahmedabad District (excluding area already authorized) | 5     |
| 81    | Gujarat       | Gandhinagar Urban                                      | 14    |
| 82    | Gujarat       | Ahmedabad City                                         | 23    |
| 83    | Rajasthan     | NOC for CNG Stations (DBS)                             | 2     |
| Total | Total         | Total                                                  | 1,742 |

Annexure referred to in reply to part (c) & (d) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.2346 for 8.7.2019 asked by Shri Jasbir Singh Gill & Others, MPs regarding 'Allotment of Petrol Pumps/LPG Distribution Agency'.

## Details of proposed CNG Stations

|   Sl No . | State/Union Territories                | GAs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |   No. of GAs authorized |   Work programm e/CNG Stations |
|-----------|----------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------------------|
|         1 | Andhra Pradesh                         | Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam &Vizianagaram Districts Anantapur and YSR (Kadapa) Districts Sri PottiSriramulu Nellore District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |                       3 |                            426 |
|         2 | Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka & Tamil Nadu | Chittoor, Kolar and Vellore Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |                       1 |                            251 |
|         3 | Assam                                  | Cachar, Hailakandi&Karimganj Districts Kamrup&Kamrup Metropolitan Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |                       2 |                             72 |
|         4 | Bihar                                  | Aurangabad, Kaimur&Rohtas Districts Begusarai District Gaya &Nalanda Districts Araria, Purnia, Katihar and Kishanganj Districts Arwal, Jehanabad, Bhojpur and Buxar Districts Khagaria, Saharsa and Madhepura Districts Lakhisarai, Munger and Bhagalpur Districts Muzaffarpur, Vaishali, Saran and Samastipur Districts                                                                                                       |                       8 |                            459 |
|         5 | Bihar & Jharkhand                      | Nawada and Koderma Districts Sheikhpura, Jamui and Deoghar Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |                       2 |                             37 |
|         6 | Daman and Diu & Gujarat                | Diu &GirSomnath Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |                       1 |                             35 |
|         7 | Gujarat                                | Surendranagar District (Except areas already authorized) Barwala&RanpurTalukas Navsari District (Except areas already authorized), Surat District (Except areas already authorized), Tapi District (Except areas already authorized) & the Dangs District Junagadh District Kheda District (Except areas already authorized), Morbi District (Except areas already authorized) &Mahisagar District Narmada (Rajpipla) District |                       7 |                            140 |
|         8 | Haryana & Himachal Pradesh             | Panchkula District (Except areas already authorized), Sirmaur, Shimla &Solan (Except areas already authorized) Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |                       1 |                             45 |
|         9 | Haryana & Punjab                       | Sirsa, Fatehabad and Mansa (Punjab) Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |                       1 |                             54 |
|        10 | Haryana                                | Bhiwani, CharkhiDadri&Mahendragarh Districts Hisar District Jhajjar District Sonipat District (Except areas already authorized) &Jind District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |                       6 |                            277 |

|    |                                | Nuh&Palwal Districts Kaithal District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |    |     |
|----|--------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----|-----|
| 11 | Himachal Pradesh               | Bilaspur, Hamirpur&Una Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |  1 |  10 |
| 12 | Jharkhand                      | Bokaro, Hazaribagh&Ramgarh Districts Giridih&Dhanbad Districts Chatra and Palamu Districts Seraikela-Kharsawan District West Singhbhum District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |  5 | 179 |
| 13 | Karnataka                      | Chitradurga&Davanagere Districts Udupi District Ballari&Gadag Districts Bidar District Dakshina Kannada District Ramanagara District Bagalkot, Koppal and Raichur Districts Chikkamagaluru, Hassan and Kodagu Districts Kalaburagi and Vijayapura Districts Mysuru, Mandya and Chamarajanagar Districts Uttara Kannada, Haveri and Shivamogga Districts                                                                          | 11 | 812 |
| 14 | Kerala                         | Kozhikode &Wayanad Districts Malappuram District Palakkad &Thrissur Districts Alapuzzha, Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |  4 | 763 |
| 15 | Kerala &Puducherry             | Districts Kannur, Kasaragod&Mahe Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |  1 | 125 |
| 16 | Madhya Pradesh                 | Bhopal &Rajgarh Districts Guna District Rewa District Satna&Shandol Districts Ashoknagar District Gwalior (Except already authorized) District and Sheopur District Morena District Raisen, Shajapur and Sehore Districts Shivpuri District Sidhi and Singrauli Districts Ujjain (Except area already authorized) District, Dewas (Except area already authorized) District and Indore (Except area already authorized) District | 11 | 309 |
| 17 | Madhya Pradesh &Chattisgargh   | Anuppur, Bilaspur and Korba Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |  1 |  20 |
| 18 | Madhya Pradesh & Rajasthan     | Jhabua, Banswara, Ratlam and Dungarpur Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |  1 |  54 |
| 19 | Madhya Pradesh & Uttar Pradesh | Jhansi (Except area already authorized) District, Bhind, Jalaun, Lalitpur and Datia Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |  1 |  29 |
| 20 | Maharashtra                    | Ahmednagar& Aurangabad Districts Latur&Osmanabad Districts Sangli&Satara Districts Sindhudurg District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |  4 | 225 |
| 21 | Maharashtra & Gujarat          | Valsad (Except areas already authorized), Dhule&Nashik Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |  1 | 156 |
| 22 | Odisha                         | Angul&Dhekanal Districts Sundargarh&Jharsuguda Districts Balasore, Bhadrak&Mayurbhanj Districts Bargarh, Debagarh&Sambalpur Districts Ganjam, Nayagarh&Puri Districts Jagatsinghpur&Kendrapara Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |  7 | 116 |

|   23 | Puducherry&           | Jajpur&Kendujhar Districts Karaikal&Nagapattinam Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |   1 |   27 |
|------|-----------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----|------|
|   24 | Tamil Nadu Puducherry | Puducherry District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |   1 |  130 |
|   25 | Punjab                | SAS Nagar District (Except areas already authorized), Patiala &Sangrur Districts Ludhiana District (Except area already authorized), Barnala&Moga Districts Jalandhar District (Except areas already authorized), Kapurthala& SBS Nagar Districts Ferozepur, Faridkot and Sri Muktsar Sahib Districts Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |   5 |  278 |
|   26 | Rajasthan             | Barmer, Jaisalmer& Jodhpur Districts Alwar (Other than Bhiwadi) & Jaipur Districts Kota District (Except area already authorized), Baran&Chittorgarh (Only RawatbhataTaluka) Districts Bhilwara&Bundi Districts Chittorgarh (Other than RawatbhataTaluka) & Udaipur Districts Dholpur District Ajmer, Pali and Rajsamand Districts Jalore and Sirohi Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |   8 |  576 |
|   27 | Tamil Nadu            | Kanchipuram District Chennai &Tiruvallur Districts Coimbatore District Cuddalore, Nagapattinam&Tiruvarur Districts Ramanathapuram District Salem District Tiruppur District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |   7 |  890 |
|   28 | Telangana             | BhadradriKothagudem&Khamman Districts Jagtial, Peddapalli, Karimnagar&RajannaSircilla Districts Jangaon, JayashankarBhupalpally, Mahabubabad, Warangal Urban & Warangal Rural Districts Medak, Siddipet&Sangareddy Districts Medchal-Malkajgiri, Ranga Reddy &Vikarabad Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |   6 |  268 |
|   29 | Tripura               | Gomati District West Tripura (Except areas already authorized) District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |   2 |   12 |
|   30 | Uttar Pradesh         | Bulandshahr District (Except areas already authorized), Aligarh &Hathras Districts Allahabad District (Except areas already authorized), Bhadohi&Kaushambi Districts Amethi, Pratapgarh&Raebareli Districts Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat&Etawah Districts Faizabad&Sultanpur Districts Gorakhpur, SantKabir Nagar &Kushinagar Districts Meerut District (Except areas already authorized), Muzaffarnagar&Shamli Districts Moradabad (Except areas already authorized) District Unnao (Except areas already authorized) District Azamgarh, Mau and Ballia Districts Bareilly (Except area already authorized) District, Pilibhit and Rampur Districts Basti and Ambedkarnagar Districts Farrukhabad, Etah and Hardoi Districts Gonda and Barabanki Districts |  19 |  785 |

|       |                            | Jaunpur and Ghazipur Districts Kanpur (Except area already authorized) District, Fatehpur and Hamirpur Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |     |      |
|-------|----------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----|------|
| 31    | Uttar Pradesh &Uttarakhand | Bijnor and Nainital Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |   1 |   91 |
| 32    | Uttarakhand                | Dehradun District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |   1 |   50 |
| 33    | West Bengal                | Burdwan District Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Uttar Dinajpur Districts Howrah (Except Area already authorized) District and Hoogly (Except Area already authorized) District Nadia (Except Area already authorized) District and North 24 Parganas (Except Area already authorized) District South 24 Parganas (Except Area already authorized) District |   5 |  480 |
| Total | Total                      |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | 136 | 8181 |