New Delhi, August 19: Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP R K Dhawan has cautioned Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde against falling prey to tactics of an Anil Ambani Group firm, which he alleged was using power PSU NTPC as a front to fight Petroleum Ministry.
Dhawan yesterday wrote to Shinde on advertisements issued by Reliance Natural Resources Ltd (RNRL) accusing Oil Ministry of compromising NTPC’s interest in a case on gas pricing with Reliance Industries.
NTPC has taken RIL to court seeking implementation of a gas supply contract at a price of USD 2.34 per mmBtu, while government has approved USD 4.2 per mmBtu as price for RIL’s KG-D6 fields.
“RNRL is using NTPC as a front to achieve its objective to receive preferential access to gas at a subsidised price, resulting in government to lose an amount of Rs 35,000 crore,” Dhawan wrote to Shinde.
–PTI