The ministry of petroleum and natural gas said on Tuesday that domestic oil and gas companies have planned employment-oriented operational expenditure (Opex) of around Rs 41,672 crore for FY21, which can generate around 14.5 crore man-days of direct and indirect employment. Of this, Rs 11,296 crore has already been spent on creating 4.4 crore man-days of jobs, the government added.
As many as 8,363 oil and gas projects are currently underway, which will incur capital expenditure of Rs 1.2 lakh crore in FY21. As on August 15, around Rs 26,576 crore has already been spent in this fiscal on these projects.
