(a) whether the Union Government have asked the state-owned oil marketing companies to share the burden of increased global crude prices and not pass it all to the consumers;
(b) if so, whether it has also been pointed out that oil companies cannot increase the prices fortnightly by 25-30 paise in tandem with global prices to keep their rate of returns intact;
(c) if so, the other communications forwarded to these companies; and
(d) the extent to which they have agreed?