The parliamentary standing committee on petroleum and chemicals yesterday rapped the government for giving undue legitimacy to oil consultant companies without verification of their requisite standing.
From the above submission, it appears the government, the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and the empowered standing committee, somehow, allow anybody and everybody to have presentation made before them on his or her mere offer to do so, the committee noted.
That is the precise reason why even the committee took them seriously even though the committee did not give them opportunity to make presentation to them in spite of their offers to do so, it said.
The committee submitted its ninth report on demands for grants of the petroleum ministry.
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