State-run oil Oil India Ltd (OIL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), among others bagged the licenses for building gas infrastructure in the Northeastern states and Jammu and Kashmir under the 12th city gas distribution (CGD) bidding round.
The 12th CGD bidding round constituted 8 Geographical Areas (GAs) across 6 Northeast states – Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim and Mizoram – and two Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. This round in totality covered 103 districts.
The winners for the GAs were as follows:
1. Arunachal Pradesh – BPCL and OIL consortium
2. Meghalaya – Haryana City Gas
3. Manipur – Tripura Natural Gas Company Ltd
4. Mizoram – Tripura Natural Gas Company Ltd
5. Sikkim- HPCL
6. Nagaland – HPCL and Oil India
7. Jammu and Kashmir – BPCL
8. Ladakh – BPCL