The Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) have bagged two licenses each for retailing CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households in the latest bid round.
As many as seven companies had placed 21 bids for city gas licences in five areas in states like Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) had put on offer five Geographical Areas (GAs), spread over 27 districts in five states, in the 11A City Gas Distribution (CGD) bid round.
BPCL secured the license for a GA comprising districts such as Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur and Mahrajganj in Uttar Pradesh and another for Chhattisgarh's Koriya, Surajpur, Balrampur and Surguja districts have been clubbed into one GA.
On the other hand, HPCL won the license for a GA made up of Banka in Bihar as well as Dumka, Godda, Jamtara and Pakur districts in Jharkhand.
It also won the license for GA made up of Birbhum, Murshidabad, Malda and Dakshin Dinajpur districts of West Bengal.
GAIL Gas bagged the license for the Kodagan, Bastar, Sukma, Bijapur and Dantewada districts in Chhattisgarh. The sixth GA of Yanam in Puducherry has been added to the bid round and bids for this area are due on 10 May 2022.