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The Rs 19,000 Crore Mystery ,,,,,

In a report that was tabled in Parliament on 8 May 2015, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India indicted the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for providing an “undue benefit” to Reliance Jio—a telecom company owned by Mukesh Ambani as part of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)—by allowing Jio to offer voice services under the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum. According to the report, the cost of this “undue benefit” was Rs 3,367 crore. However in a draft report that had been released by the CAG in August 2014, the figure for the undue benefit was Rs 22,842 crore.
Cancel broadband spectrum held by Reliance Jio: CAG draft report
CAG in a draft report sent to the Department of Telecom for comments, said, "the DoT failed to recognise the tell-tale sign of rigging of the auction right from beginning of the auction" in which a small ISP, Infotel Broadband Services Pvt Ltd (IBSPL) emerged winner of pan-India broadband spectrum by paying 5,000 times of its net worth.
RIL, which acquired IBSPL within hours of it winning the spectrum and later renamed it Reliance Jio, said, "There is no final CAG report that we are aware of. That said we outrightly reject any suggestion whereby spectrum was acquired in any manner other than through a transparent bidding process duly supervised by Government of India."
According to the draft report, IBSPL, ranked 150th in the list of ISPs, submitted an earnest money deposit of Rs 252.50 crore "through the covert and overt assistance of third party/private bank", bid for Rs 12,847.77 crore (5000 times of its net worth) for pan-India spectrum and then sold the company on the day of completion of the auction.
These, according to the draft report, "indicated IBSPL's collusion and sharing of the confidential information with a third party in violation of auction conditions/rules."
RIL spokesperson said the auction for the BWA spectrum was one of the most competitive auction in the Indian telecom history which fetched final bid price more than six times the reserve price for the Pan-India spectrum.
"This was despite no visible evidence of any eco-system for the BWA spectrum at the time of auction. Any allegations of so-called collusion, sharing the confidential information or rigging the auction are bizarre and completely rejected," the spokesperson said.
On bank guarantee, RIL spokesperson said that as per NIA bidders were required to submit Bank Guarantee for desired amount as Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) along with its application.
"EMD was based on specific deposit requirement for each telecom circle. Accordingly Infotel Broadband Services Pvt Ltd (IBSPL) submitted a Bank Guarantee of Rs 253 crore in format as prescribed in NIA. Since no money was deposited as EMD, the question of source of deposit does not arise," the spokesperson said.
The draft CAG report said, "Due to inclusion of inadequate eligibility criterion for participation in the auction, the promoters of the IBSPL enriched themselves and made unfair gain."
CAG rejected DoT response that the eligibility criterion for participation in the auction was finalised after due diligence and on sector regulator TRAI's recommendations saying it was department's responsibility to ensure that only serious ISPs participated in the auction.
DoT in its response admitted that there was no eligibility criterion with respect to minimum net worth or paid up capital for participation in the auction.
"Neither the top management of the DoT nor the important committees... could detect these tell tale signs of collusion and sharing of confidential information by the biggest bidder, a tiny ISP.
"The IMC (inter-ministerial committee) did not satisfy itself as to how the IBSPL, a company with a net worth of Rs 2.5 crore, would be able to pay the bid amount of Rs 12,847.77 crore within ten days," it said.
CAG in the draft report said, "the government should get the matter investigated even at this juncture, fix responsibilities on the bidders, which violated the auction conditions/rules prescribed and cancel the allotment of the BWA spectrum along with exemplary punishment on the colluding firms."
The CAG estimated that decision of government to allow Internet service providers licence holder having BWA spectrum to provide voice services against payment of Rs 1,658 crore resulted in undue advantage worth Rs 22,842 crore to RJio.
The DoT has said the auction rules allowed all kind of telecom operators to participate in auction and there were no inherent limitation in providing voice service using BWA spectrum.
"Has the successfully bidder of pan-India BWA spectrum obtained UAS licence (permits held by mobile phone service providers), he would have become eligible to use BWA spectrum to provide any of the service permitted under UASL including full mobile service," the official source said.
Telecom operators like Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, Vodafone, Aircel etc hold Unified Access Service Licence (UASL) that allows them providing full mobile phone services as well.
The BWA auction rules gave option to participants to procure BWA spectrum under UASL against payment of Rs 1,658 crore as paid by other operators but there was no guarantee of giving them initial spectrum as was given to incumbents.
CAG has rejected logic of DoT saying that auction guidelines linking of BWA spectrum with UASL is "unfair and highly inappropriate."