Lok Sabha Question No. 317 (STARRED), answered on 2016-08-08
Subject: Allotment of Petrol Pumps
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: ASHOK MAHADEORAO NETE, ANOOP MISHRA

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.   317 TO BE ANSWERED ON 8  TH  AUGUST, 2016

## ALLOTMENT OF PETROL PUMPS

* 317. SHRI ASHOK MAHADEORAO NETE : SHRI ANOOP MISHRA :

## QUESTION

## पेट्रोलियम एवं प्राक ृ लिक गैस मंत्री

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

- (a)   the number of petrol pumps which are directly operated by Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) at present and direct investments made by OMCs in such petrol pumps along with  the  norms  and  criteria/policy  prescribed  for  allotment  of  such  petrol  pumps, OMC/State/UT-wise;
- (b)   whether the Government has any proposal to set up 10,000 gas agencies vis-a-vis allocation of LPG connections in rural/ backward and urban areas of the country and if so, the details thereof along with funds earmarked for the purpose, State/UT-wise ;
- (c)   whether the Government has set up/proposes to set up additional gas agencies to minimise/reduce  the  burden  of  huge  number  of  gas  connections  in  various  places including Maharashtra and if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise; and
- (d)    whether  the  Government  proposes  to  set  up  sub-agencies  for  LPG  distribution  in near future and if so, the details thereof along with norms/criteria and guidelines to be followed including funding pattern of the said agencies?

## 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 PARTS (a) TO (d) OF THE LOK SABHA STARRED  QUESTION  NO.317  ASKED  BY  SHRI  ASHOK  MAHADEORAO  NETE AND SHRI ANOOP MISHRA FOR ANSWER ON 08.08.2016 REGARDING ALLOTMENT OF PETROL PUMPS.

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- (a)   Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies operate some of their Retail Outlets (ROs) in the  country  on  Company  Owned  Company  Operated  (COCO)  basis.  The  day  to  day operation  of  such  ROs  is  under  the  supervision  of  Company  Officer.  The  staff  on  the forecourt is provided by the Service Provider who is on contract with the Corporation for providing the staff for such services.

Ministry  of  Petroleum  &  Natural  Gas  vide  letter  dated  6th  September,  2006  issued  broad guidelines  on  operation  of  Permanent  COCO  and  also  regarding  phasing  out  of  Temporary COCO. Only temporary COCOs were to be phased out and OMCs continue to operate their Flagship ROs as Permanent COCOs for various reasons like, scale of investment, strategic location, creating brand image, training of dealer /staff, trying out new initiatives etc.,

The direct investment made by OMCs in such permanent COCOs depends on various factors like  type  of  market  (Urban/Highway),  size  of  the  plot  (small/medium/large  format),  assessed sales potential of the site, facilities/equipments planned etc. Further, the investment is made on Return  on  Investment  (ROI)  working  of  the  proposed  site(s)  and  meeting  the  benchmark Internal Rate of Return (IRR).

## State/UT/OMC wise numbers of such Permanent COCOs are at Annexure-I.

- (b) & (c) Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) appoint LPG distributorships in the country including state of Maharashtra for distribution of LPG  to their consumers. Appointment of LPG distributorships is a continuous process. OMCs aim to have at least one distributor in each block by 2019. Currently, as a part of the process of opening 10,000 new distributorships, the process for setting up of more than 2000 new LPG distributorships is at different stages of selection across the country. These new distributorships will largely come in  rural  areas.  As  on  01-07-2016,  there  are  18033  LPG  distributorships  in  the  country. State/UT-wise details of LPG distributorships are at Annexure-II.
- (d)  Unified Guidelines for Selection of LPG Distributorships, 2016 provide for setting up `LPG Suvidha Kendra' on need basis in the country in difficult and special areas where setting  up  of  Gramin  Vitraks  and  Urban  Vitraks  are  not  feasible.  It  will  be  purely  on temporary  basis  and  managed  by  an  authorized  person  of  the  concerned  `Durgam Kshetriya Vitrak'. From the `LPG Suvidha Kendra', LPG customers will get products and services  related  to  LPG  like  new  LPG  connections,  supply  of  LPG  cylinders  refill, attending  to  LPG  leakage  complaints,  servicing  of  LPG  gas  Stoves/hotplate,  building awareness on use of LPG etc.

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Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) of Lok Sabha Starred Question  No. 317 asked by Shri Ashok Mahadeorao Nete and Shri Anoop Mishra, Hon`ble MPs regarding 'Allotment of Petrol Pumps'.

## State/UT/OMC-wise number of permanent COCOs as on 01-07-2016

|   S.NO. | State / UT               |   IOCL |   BPCL |   HPCL |
|---------|--------------------------|--------|--------|--------|
|       1 | Andhra Pradesh           |      7 |     23 |     17 |
|       2 | Arunachal Pradesh        |      0 |      0 |      0 |
|       3 | Assam                    |      0 |      1 |      0 |
|       4 | Bihar                    |      2 |      7 |      0 |
|       5 | Chhattisgarh             |      2 |      4 |      4 |
|       6 | Delhi                    |      3 |      3 |      3 |
|       7 | Goa                      |      0 |      0 |      0 |
|       8 | Gujarat                  |      1 |     10 |     19 |
|       9 | Haryana                  |      3 |      7 |      6 |
|      10 | Himachal Pradesh         |      0 |      0 |      1 |
|      11 | Jammu & Kashmir          |      0 |      0 |      0 |
|      12 | Jharkhand                |      1 |      4 |      0 |
|      13 | Karnataka                |     14 |     13 |      9 |
|      14 | Kerala                   |      3 |     10 |      2 |
|      15 | Madhya Pradesh           |      1 |      8 |      5 |
|      16 | Maharashtra              |      5 |     28 |     23 |
|      17 | Manipur                  |      0 |      0 |      0 |
|      18 | Meghalaya                |      0 |      0 |      0 |
|      19 | Mizoram                  |      0 |      0 |      0 |
|      20 | Nagaland                 |      0 |      0 |      0 |
|      21 | Odisha                   |      1 |      7 |      5 |
|      22 | Punjab                   |      6 |      5 |      7 |
|      23 | Rajasthan                |      4 |     19 |      9 |
|      24 | Sikkim                   |      0 |      0 |      0 |
|      25 | Tamil Nadu               |     11 |     16 |     16 |
|      26 | Telangana                |      5 |     11 |     11 |
|      27 | Tripura                  |      0 |      0 |      0 |
|      28 | Uttar Pradesh            |      5 |     18 |     13 |
|      29 | Uttarakhand              |      0 |      1 |      0 |
|      30 | West Bengal              |     16 |     10 |      4 |
|      31 | Andaman &Nicobar Islands |      0 |      0 |      0 |
|      32 | Chandigarh               |      0 |      1 |      0 |

| 33   | Dadra& Nagar Haveli   |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|------|-----------------------|-----|-----|-----|
| 34   | Daman& Due            |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 35   | Lakshadweep           |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 36   | Puducherry            |   0 |   0 |   2 |
|      | TOTAL                 |  90 | 206 | 156 |

## Annexure-II

Annexure referred to in reply to part (b) & (c) of Lok Sabha Starred Question  No. 317 asked by Shri Ashok Mahadeorao Nete and Shri Anoop Mishra, Hon`ble MPs regarding 'Allotment of Petrol Pumps'.

## State/UT-wise number of LPG Distributors as on 01.07.2016

| STATE/UT             |   Regular Distributorship |   RGGLV |   (FIG IN Nos) TOTAL |
|----------------------|---------------------------|---------|----------------------|
| CHANDIGARH           |                        27 |       0 |                   27 |
| DELHI                |                       321 |       0 |                  321 |
| HARYANA              |                       318 |     101 |                  419 |
| HIMACHAL PRADESH     |                       132 |      27 |                  159 |
| JAMMU & KASHMIR      |                       180 |      53 |                  233 |
| PUNJAB               |                       589 |     144 |                  733 |
| RAJASTHAN            |                       625 |     406 |                 1031 |
| UTTAR PRADESH        |                      1739 |    1090 |                 2829 |
| UTTRANCHAL           |                       215 |      30 |                  245 |
| ANDAMAN & NICOBAR    |                         5 |       0 |                    5 |
| ARUNACHAL PRADESH    |                        34 |      24 |                   58 |
| ASSAM                |                       314 |     115 |                  429 |
| BIHAR                |                       539 |     517 |                 1056 |
| JHARKHAND            |                       209 |     181 |                  390 |
| MANIPUR              |                        43 |      35 |                   78 |
| MEGHALAYA            |                        39 |      10 |                   49 |
| MIZORAM              |                        29 |      25 |                   54 |
| NAGALAND             |                        37 |      21 |                   58 |
| ORISSA               |                       286 |     280 |                  566 |
| SIKKIM               |                        12 |       3 |                   15 |
| TRIPURA              |                        37 |      21 |                   58 |
| WEST BENGAL          |                       615 |     318 |                  933 |
| CHATTISGARH          |                       192 |     172 |                  364 |
| DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI |                         2 |       0 |                    2 |
| DAMAN & DIU          |                         3 |       0 |                    3 |
| GOA                  |                        51 |       0 |                   51 |
| GUJARAT              |                       613 |     134 |                  747 |
| MADHYA PRADESH       |                       705 |     509 |                 1214 |
| MAHARASHTRA          |                      1282 |     424 |                 1706 |
| ANDHRA PRADESH       |                       688 |     158 |                  846 |
| KARNATAKA            |                       681 |     264 |                  945 |
| KERALA               |                       523 |      53 |                  576 |
| LAKSHADWEEP          |                         1 |       0 |                    1 |

| PONDICHERRY(INCLUDING MAHE)   |    22 |    1 |    23 |
|-------------------------------|-------|------|-------|
| TAMILNADU                     |   887 |  254 |  1141 |
| TELANGANA                     |   517 |  151 |   668 |
| ALL INDIA                     | 12512 | 5521 | 18033 |