(MC)
Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on the issue of splitting gas utility GAIL today said a decade- old policy provides for a natural gas transporter not having any interest in marketing of the fuel.
Pradhan gave the response in Rajya Sabha on a written reply to a question on splitting state-owned gas utility GAIL India Ltd by separating its gas marketing business from its primary role as a transporter of gas.
Incorporated in August 1984 by spinning off gas business of ONGC, GAIL (India) Ltd owns and operates about 11,000-km of natural gas pipelines in the country. It sells around 60 per cent of natural gas in the country.
