Yesterday, the Finance Minister approved the subsidy compensation for oil marketing companies (OMCs) for Q4FY13 at Rs.45,000 crore. Earlier during the fiscal, cash subsidy of Rs.55,000 crore was given; this means that for FY13, the total subsidy doled out is to the tune of a jaw dropping Rs.100,000 crore or Rs.1 trillion. Upstream OMCs will share a subsidy burden to the tune of Rs.60,000 crore.