He said parallel to discussions with the DoT, the Supreme Court has been approached on the issue
Current Affairs: The Department of Telecommunications looking for almost Rs 3 trillion in duty from non-telecom PSUs, for example, GAIL, Oil India Ltd and PowerGrid, was an aftereffect of “correspondence hole” as these organizations don’t owe any such sum, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Thursday.
Following the October 24 Supreme Court deciding that non-telecom incomes of telecom firms, for example, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea ought to be incorporated for thinking about installments of government contribution, the telecom office looked for Rs 1.72 trillion from gas utility GAIL India Ltd, Rs 48,000 crore from OIL, Rs 40,000 crore from PowerGrid and raised comparative requests from RailTel and other open part endeavors (PSUs).
The administration’s interest from such organizations expanded commonly more than their total assets and the Center requested that they go to the Supreme Court against such duty. While Oil India Ltd documented a clarificatory/modificatory appeal on Wednesday, GAIL moved toward the peak court on Thursday.
“We are in exchange with the telecom service. We had given them our answer (on the interest raised),” Pradhan told correspondents here. “Potentially in light of correspondence hole, the Government of India’s one division has raised such interest on PSUs under another administration office.”
He said corresponding to exchanges with the DoT, the Supreme Court has been drawn closer on the issue.
Aditi Mehta 