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Oil firms block 3.8 mn LPG connections
17 May 2012;business-standard.com:Ajay Modi:New Delhi: If you have multiple liquefied natural gas (LPG) connections or one along with a piped natural gas (PNG) connection, be ready to have your cylinder blocked if you do not surrender it. The three government oil marketers blocked as many as 3.8 million LPG connections by March 2012. Oil marketing companies IndianOil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum together blocked nearly 2.9 million LPG connections belonging to customers having more than one connection across states. Similarly, around 900,000 LPG connections with consumers having PNG connections were blocked. “With a connection getting blocked, consumers will no longer get refills. We want them to surrender such cylinders and regulators to get a refund of the security deposit and facilitate bringing new consumers under cooking gas coverage,” said an oil company official. Though the drive was started around May 2010, the momentum picked up from the beginning of FY12, he added. The idea is to restrict usage of the hugely subsidised domestic LPG to genuine consumers. Among states, the highest number of multiple LPG connections were blocked in Andhra Pradesh (488,000), followed by Tamil Nadu (470,000), Maharashtra (326,000), Uttar Pradesh (220,000), Karnataka (209,000), Gujarat (158,000), Rajasthan (145,000) and West Bengal (106,000). The most LPG connections of consumers with PNG were blocked in Maharashtra (399,000), followed by Gujarat (329,000) and the national capital territory of Delhi (160,000). Notably, the usage cost of PNG is kept even lower than subsidised LPG so that consumers do not hesitate to shift to PNG. The country has 1.6 million PNG connections. Another oil industry official said while oil marketers were blocking multiple LPG connections belonging to their own company, the next stage would be blocking even those belonging to a different company. IndianOil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum, which together cater to the nation’s demand, currently lose Rs 480 on every domestic cooking gas cylinder. The country has 133 million domestic LPG connections. A 14.2-kg LPG cylinder meant for domestic use sells at Rs 399.26 in Delhi compared to Rs 1,542 for a commercial cylinder of 19 kg, whose price is market-linked. The huge difference provides an incentive for black marketing and diversion towards commercial use. It also leads to indiscriminate use of the subsidised fuel. The annual subsidy on domestic LPG is usually in the range of Rs 25,000-30,000 crore. For the last fiscal, the subsidy on LPG was Rs 30,000 crore. A proposal last year to limit the number of subsidised cylinders consumers could get in a year was dropped after opposition from key UPA allies, the DMK and Trinamool Congress. The petroleum ministry had made proposals to cap subsidy to the committee on direct transfer of subsidies headed by Unique Identification Authority Chairman Nandan Nilekani. The ministry wanted to bring an income-based cap on cooking gas so that the subsidy benefit was targeted at economically weaker sections.
16 May 2012;timesofindia.indiatimes.com:NEW DELHI: Get ready to pay more for fuels shortly. The hike is likely to kick in soon after Parliament's budget session ends on May 22. In a clear indication of the inevitable, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday warned of "disastrous consequences" if "corrective steps" were not taken to deal with the problem of high oil prices and seemingly endless subsidy. "Petroleum prices are increasing by leaps and bounds. We cannot keep them under any carpet. If we do not take corrective measures, we will have to face disastrous consequences," he told the Rajya Sabha but tempered . But he also promised to temper the shock of any oil price hike by saying the entire burden would not be passed on to consumers. "I cannot entirely pass on the extra burden to the consumers.... Apart from his or her suffering individually, it will have its inflationary impact. That is also an issue which we shall have to address." In the backdrop of losses suffered by the state-run oil companies, an increase of Rs 4-5 a litre in the price of petrol, Rs 2-3 in diesel and a Rs 50 per cooking gas cylinder appears a distinct possibility. But opposition from UPA allies may prevent a revision in kerosene price.
16 May 2012;hindustantimes.com:New Delhi: Ravi Narayan Bastia, the man who discovered the gigantic Krishna Godavari basin D6 field for Reliance Industries, has quit the company. Bastia, who was in 2007 conferred the Padma Shri for finding the energy-hungry nation’s second biggest gas find to date, resigned from RIL last week, industry sources said. In 2002, RIL made a natural gas discovery in the very first well it drilled some 200-km off the east coast in the Bay of Bengal, and Bastia is said to be the man behind the success. When contacted, Bastia, senior vice-president in RIL, confirmed his quitting the company, but refused to either give reasons for his move or what he would be doing next. “As of now I am not joining anyone,” he said. When Bastia joined Reliance in 1996 from state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, the late Dhirubhai Ambani was giving shape to energy foray of the company, which till then was into petrochemicals and textiles.
Auto industry against inclusion in India-European Union free trade agreement
16 May 2012;timesofindia.indiatimes.com:NEW DELHI: With the proposed India-EU free trade agreement (FTA) in its final leg, the domestic auto industry has raised alarm bells against including the sector in the trade agreement, saying it will kill investments and technology inflow and jeopardise the targets set under the government's much-touted Automotive Mission Plan (AMP), released by PM Manmohan Singh. While the domestic industry lobby Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) argues against the FTA inclusion, a section of the global industry - mainly European auto companies - feel the opposition is protectionist and not in sync with current economic realities. The house is divided at a time when there are indications that the government is looking to include the auto sector in the FTA, following which import duty on a specified number of cars may fall to 30% from the existing 60%. The government is looking at allowing cheaper import of a specified number of cars under tariff rate quota (TRQs). The concession, is expected to benefit not only luxury carmakers like Audi, BMW and Mercedes, but also mainline players such as Volkswagen, Fiat, Skoda and Peugeot. "The AMP targets were based on certain consistency in policy. If the auto industry is included in the FTA, the entire equilibrium will be disturbed and India will not meet the AMP target," said Siam senior director Sugato Sen.
Domestic industry fears that cheaper imports from EU have the potential to hit them badly and may see a flight of manufacturing investments from India, hurting employment and technology flow. The AMP 2006-16 had envisaged an investment of $40 billion in the auto sector by 2016, while doubling its contribution to the GDP to over 10% and creating 25 million new jobs. Siam said these targets will be impossible to meet in case the auto industry is included in the FTA.
However, the European companies differ. "The auto sector should definitely be included ," saysJohn Chacko, chief India representative for theVolkswagen group that sells brands like Audi, VW and Skoda. He said Indian manufacturing is "very competitive" and cannot be threatened even if imports from Europe become cheaper. "Manufacturing in Europe is very expensive and we do not stand any chance in the volume segments in India."
"It is a misnomer that the Indian industry will suffer if the duty is lowered. While we support the argument that duty should remain high where competitive volume products are there in the market, there is no argument to support any talk of maintaining higher duty for the luxury-end of the market," Debashish Mitra, director for sales & marketing at Mercedes-Benz India, had said in an earlier interaction.
15 May 2012;timesofindia.indiatimes.com:Pankaj Doval:NEW DELHI: After months of negotiations for an exit, Siddharth Shriram-led Usha International (UIL) has changed its plans and decided to stay on as a partner in Honda India's carmaking joint venture - Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI). UIL also plans to make further investments and raise its stake. The buzz of fresh investments in HSCI come weeks after UIL was in talks of stake sale. Sources said that UIL's plan to stay put in the JV will further heighten tensions between the partners. The Indian partner is understood to have accused the HSCI management, appointed by Honda, of engaging in corporate governance violations and bypassing minority shareholders. Shriram's son Krishna said UIL would stay put in HSCI as it has confidence in the prospects of the company. "We are looking at subscribing to the future rights issues of HSCI as the best way forward for us," he told TOI. "With the current investment plan and strategy, Honda's future in India appears extremely bright." Shriram's decision to continue in HSCI comes after his company did not participate in Rs 1,200 crore rights issue last fiscal that saw UIL's stake go down from 5% to around 3.6%. Sources said that the Shriram family is not satisfied with the valuation Honda is offering for its stake and thus has decided to suspend its exit plans for the time being. It, however, remains to be seen how much UIL will spend in the next wave of investments at HSCI and how does it fund this. The sources said that valuation had emerged as the bone of contention between the partners in the recent talks as UIL sought an amount "much higher" than the Rs 57 per share Honda had paid in the rights issue last fiscal. While Honda was willing to pay a "handsome premium" over what it had paid in the rights issue, the Indian partner asked for a much higher amount. "What they were seeking was well over Rs 100," the sources said, adding that Honda refused to agree to this. The JV also allows UIL to sell its stake to a third party. Sources said that the Japanese car major had raised no objection if the Indian partner exercised this option. It is, however, yet not clear whether UIL has approached any third party for the stake sale. "However, whenever they do so, they have to inform Honda about it," the sources said. The two partners have already had a series of negotiations on UIL's stake valuation. "But no solution has been reached as the two have not been able to arrive at an amicable valuation for UIL's holding," the sources said. Lack of a diesel engine in its line-up and rising competition from newer models saw Honda's sales volumes go down 8% last fiscal, though the company also counted parts supply crunch due to floods in Thailand and quake in Japan among the depressants. The two partners are still engaged in talks and these are expected to last some more time. However, the going looks to be tough as the trust factor appears to be missing, the sources added.
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