The Centre has not taken any decision to set up an oil refinery project in any specific are in Maharashtra, according to petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri.
He told reporters in Chandrapur that the state administration and the federal government must negotiate the project’s location.
He claimed the previous administration (in Maharashtra) had provided land for the project but afterwards withheld it on the guise of relocating it, which caused it to fail.
“Following this, the state (Maharashtra) and the country faced huge economic losses in the last two-and-a-half years,” Puri alleged.
