The British giant has been working with Reliance since 2008 on a deepwater block in the Krishna Godavari basin that they co-own.

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With gas output from the much-hyped Krishna-Godavari basin, located on its eastern coast, not meeting expectations, it will be forced to import more.

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The row centres on the pricing of natural gas from one of India's biggest fields, in the Krishna Godavari basin in the Bay of Bengal.

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He set up free primary and secondary schools all over India, had another free hospital built at Bangalore, and paid for drinking water to be piped from the Krishna river to Chennai and from the Godavari river to upland Andhra Pradesh.

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