One of this is the story of flagship project of RIL that is the RIL's Sikka Refinery . This project was initially approved as an Export Oriented Project .Initially capacity of this refinery was 6mtpa it was later expanded to perhaps 9.0 mtpa . Being an EOU , Import duty on capital goods was on concessional rate . However , RIL imported capital goods for refinery which finally when commissioned had capacity of around 22mtpa . Evidently , under declaration of intended capacity by RIL accrued huge gains to RIL by way of reduced import duty on capital goods. Coupled with incentives given to RIL in the form waivers on certain taxes.
On one side RIL built up huge capacity on the other hand ,other approved projects by PSU refineries both on west and east coasts were put in hold or were put on back burners . One wonders, if any analysis have been carried out by anyone on the consequential costs to national exchequer. more