The empower group of ministers (eGoM) chaired by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is expected to meet on July 27 to consider a proposal from the Anil Ambani-led ADAG seeking natural gas from RIL’s KG-D6 field, sources said. Since the existing natural gas allocation policy only deals with operational power plants and a new policy for future plants is pending, the ministerial panel has to consider making exemptions in the existing policy if it has to allocate gas to ADAG?s proposed power plants.
Sources said Reliance Power has applied to the petroleum ministry for supply of 28 million cubic metrea day of gas for its proposed power plants at Shahapur inMaharashtra and Bharuchin Gujarat, besides the expansion of its Samalkot plant in Andhra Pradesh.
