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Have power to frame CNG tariff rules, regulator tells court
Tuesday May 22, 2012 10:16:38 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Tuesday told the Delhi
High Court that it has the power to frame tariff regulations for Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) that distributes compressed natural
gas (CNG) and piped gas in Delhi and adjoining region.
IGL had moved court contending that the regulatory board did not
give it a hearing and calculated the tariff, announced April 9, on
the basis of the 2008 price levels for various inputs and charges.
Additional Solicitor General A.S. Chandhiok, appearing for the
regulator, told a bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and
Justice R.S. Endlaw that "under the PNGRB Act the board is
empowered to frame regulation and its is mandatory for IGL to
follow the regulations".
In order to protect the interest of consumers, the regulator stood
by its April 9 order lowering, with retrospective effect, the
network tariff and compression charges for CNG distributed by IGL.
"I am entitled to frame the regulations for the interest of
consumer," said Chandhiok clarifying that the regulator was only
fixing the tariff and not the price.
The regulatory board, in its order of April 9, not only fixed the
charges retrospectively applicable from April 1, 2008 but also
ordered IGL to refund the excess amount charged from consumers
since then.
Responding to IGL's contention that it was not consulted before
the tariff order was passed, the regulatory board earlier said
that it had sought clarifications over data on capital and
operating expenditure submitted by IGL in May 2009.
The regulator told the company to reduce its network tariff by 63
percent to Rs.38.58 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) as
against Rs.104.05 per (mmBtu) sought by the company.
It also cut compression charge for CNG by 59 percent to Rs.2.75
per kg from Rs.6.66 per kg proposed by the company.
IGL in March hiked the prices of CNG in Delhi by Rs.1.70 a kg and
Rs.1.90 per kg in Noida, citing a rise in input cost as the
factor, in March.
The current price of CNG is Rs.35.45 a kg in Delhi and Rs.39.80 a
kg in Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad.
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