RIL sells diesel to Indian railways after a decade

RIL sells diesel to Indian railways after a decade

FPJ BureauUpdated: Saturday, June 01, 2019, 12:10 AM IST
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New Delhi : Buoyed by price deregulation, Reliance Industries has begun selling diesel to Indian Railways for the first time in a decade. Indian Railways, which consumes about 2.5 million tonnes of diesel every year, till last year bought the fuel from state-owned fuel retailers.

RIL won a tender to supply diesel to Railway locomotives this fiscal and “supplies have started,” a company source told PTI.

The government had in October last year freed diesel price from its control by ending subsidies. This led to rates at which state retailers sold the fuel coming to par with market price. Since prices were deregulated, RIL was able to compete with PSUs and offered an attractive discount, which helped it win the Railway tender, the source said. He, however, refused to say how much quantity of diesel will RIL supply to Railways.

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