Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces the steepest-ever hike in fuel prices to bail out oil companies and gets slammed by the Opposition and Left in the bargain. Rajesh Mahapatra reports. Singh also cautioned that the soaring prices of the crude oil could "hurt the fiscal system" of the country. "Now the crude oil prices are $62-64 whereas few months ago, they were about 40-45. So it can hurt balance of payment. It can also hurt the fiscal system as well," Singh said. Manmohan Singh is an Indian economist, academic, and politician who served as the 13th Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. The first Sikh in office, Singh was also the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term. Born in Gah, Singh's family migrated to India during its partition in 1947. After obtaining his doctorate in economics from Oxford, Singh worked for the United Nations during 1966–69. He subsequently began his Prime Minister Manmohan Singh defies US diktat on oil import from Iran The PM says that India will continue to import oil from Iran despite fresh sanctions by the US and European Union (EU). Brent oil prices have fallen by half in the past three years, providing the government with a window to free up controls. Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended diesel subsidies in October 2014, completing a process started by his predecessor, Manmohan Singh, who got rid of gasoline subsidies in 2010. Indian oil companies (ONGC & OIL) import Crude oil and the Crude is then distilled by companies like IOCL, HPCL, BPCL to produce Petrol & Diesel The pricing of fuel has always been transparent and the prices are always available in the websites of these government run oil companies
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16 Sep 2018 What the economist PM Manmohan Singh said & did on petroleum prices? He said that money does not grow on trees & left unpaid bills of oil 21 Sep 2018 economist PM Manmohan Singh said & did on petroleum prices? He said that money does not grow on trees & left unpaid bills of oil bonds 6 Dec 2018 What the economist PM Manmohan Singh said & did on petroleum prices Fact: The Modi government paid only ₹3,500 crore worth oil bonds 26 Jun 2018 The NDA government repaid over Rs 2 lakh crore, including Rs 70000 crore interest, which was taken as loan through oil bonds by the
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Singh also cautioned that the soaring prices of the crude oil could "hurt the fiscal system" of the country. "Now the crude oil prices are $62-64 whereas few months ago, they were about 40-45. So it can hurt balance of payment. It can also hurt the fiscal system as well," Singh said. Manmohan Singh is an Indian economist, academic, and politician who served as the 13th Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. The first Sikh in office, Singh was also the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term. Born in Gah, Singh's family migrated to India during its partition in 1947. After obtaining his doctorate in economics from Oxford, Singh worked for the United Nations during 1966–69. He subsequently began his Prime Minister Manmohan Singh defies US diktat on oil import from Iran The PM says that India will continue to import oil from Iran despite fresh sanctions by the US and European Union (EU). Brent oil prices have fallen by half in the past three years, providing the government with a window to free up controls. Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended diesel subsidies in October 2014, completing a process started by his predecessor, Manmohan Singh, who got rid of gasoline subsidies in 2010. Indian oil companies (ONGC & OIL) import Crude oil and the Crude is then distilled by companies like IOCL, HPCL, BPCL to produce Petrol & Diesel The pricing of fuel has always been transparent and the prices are always available in the websites of these government run oil companies
14 Feb 2019 What the economist PM Manmohan Singh said & did on petroleum prices? He said that money does not grow on trees & left unpaid bills of oil
The BJP’s official twitter handle put out an infographic which claimed that the current government repaid pending oil bonds worth Rs 1.3 crore with an interest of Rs 40,000 crore. What the economist PM Manmohan Singh said & did on petroleum prices? He said that money does not grow on trees & left unpaid bills of oil bonds worth Rs. 1.3 lakh crore. The modest increase Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was talking about is as follows: Price of petrol has been raised by Rs 5 per litre, of diesel by Rs 3 per litre and of an LPG cylinder by Rs 50. Prices of kerosene, a vital fuel for the poor, remain unchanged. Oil bonds were issued by the UPA government when fuel prices were regulated. By doing so, the government shielded customers and domestic businesses from the vagaries of the global market for crude oil. However, subsidies were soon done away with, and excise duties were also increased. Oil bonds are a kind of special securities issued by the government of India to public entities like oil marketing companies, Food Corporation of India and fertiliser companies as a substitute for cash subsidies, according to a Reserve Bank of India report.
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