Mr. Reddy’s decision comes in the light of widespread criticism that the State was deprived of gas supply.
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy is planning to lead a delegation of Union Ministers and MPs to call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday with a request to cancel the allotment of gas from the KG basin to the Ratnagiri power project in Maharashtra.
Mr. Reddy’s decision comes in the light of widespread criticism that the State was deprived of gas supply.
Dharmana deputed
The government swung into damage control mode immediately. It deputed Roads and Buildings Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao, who is camping in New Delhi, to meet Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister S. Jaipal Reddy.
But the efforts did not bear fruit as Mr. Jaipal Reddy is learnt to have expressed his helplessness on the ground that the issue had to be taken up with the Prime Minister directly. Mr. Reddy reportedly maintained that the decision to allot 2 MMSCMD to Ratnagiri power project was taken by the EGoM headed by then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister held a high-level meeting with senior officials at the camp office to review the status of power generation and gas supply situation after allotment to the Ratnagiri power project. The meeting was attended by Chief Secretary Minnie Mathew, Principal Secretary (Energy), Mrityunjaya Sahoo and APTransco CMD Hiralal Samaria.
Another letter to PM
The Chief Minister dashed off another letter to the Prime Minister requesting him to cancel diversion of Reliance gas to Ratnagiri power project as the variable cost of Reliance/ONGC gas to the State was Rs. 2.10 a unit, compared to RLNG, whose variable cost when landing worked out to Rs. 9.06 per unit.
Officials informed that the variable cost at which Reliance/ONGC gas was available in Maharashtra and Gujarat was Rs. 3. The RLNG’s cost at West Coast was Rs. 6.05 per unit and LNG terminal was available in the West Coast to have the access to RLNG.
Keywords: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, gas quota issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, high-level delegation
Congress Party's antics. Kiran Kumar Reddy is going to Delhi and will
"beg" for the natural Gas that is found in A.P to stay in A.P!
Maharastra on the other hand lathicharged AP politicians who had gone
to the state to protest against a water project that cut off water to
nearly the entire northern Telangana and resulted in hundreds of
deaths of farmers.
If YS Rajashekar Reddy was alive (despite his corruption), he would
have not allowed this to happen.
Andhra Pradesh former CM Later YSR has signed this file first in 2008, then Petroleum Minister S Jaipal Reddy processed further with his own vested interests. As every knows that our state Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy is sleeping like PM Mr. Singh wake just now. Its state of Andhra Pradesh people sit in darkness for an year atleast. Jaipal Reddy has no ethics in it.
It will be better if A.P. CM takes opposition parties also into
confidence and takes an all-party delegation to discuss with the PM. KG
Basin gas is a national resource. Let there be an equitable
distribution. This is not deny Maharashtra its due share.
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