LPG Subsidy Rule Change: Who Are Eligible, How Much Subsidy You Will Get, Other Key Details

LPG subsidy is available only for limited beneficiaries and the rest of the users will have to pay the market price, Oil Secretary Pankaj Jain has said. The LPG subsidy on cooking gas is available for only nine crore poor women and other beneficiaries who got free connections under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. Recently, while announcing the subsidy decision, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a tweet said, “We will give a subsidy of Rs 200 per gas cylinder to over nine crore beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. This will have a revenue implication of around Rs 6,100 crore a year.” Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana: The scheme was introduced in May 2016 with an objective to make clean cooking fuels, such as LPG, available to the rural and deprived households which were otherwise using traditional cooking fuels such as firewood, coal and cow-dung cakes. Now, after the latest government decision, for Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana beneficiaries, a subsidy of Rs 200 per cylinder will be directly credited to their bank accounts and the effective price for them would be Rs 803 per 14.2-kg cylinder.