Aadhaar not mandatory for LPG subsidy transfer

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Aadhaar not mandatory for LPG subsidy transfer

The Union Cabinet on Saturday has decided that no consumer would be denied LPG subsidy under the Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme for want of an Aadhaar number, a key hurdle faced by consumers.

The scheme with this and other modifications will be relaunched in 54 districts from mid-November and in the rest of the country from January 1, 2015.

The government had revisited the design and processes of the scheme, which was launched by the UPA regime, and after a thorough review, the Modified Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme for LPG or DBTL, which is aimed at addressing the hardships faced by consumers in its earlier version, has been approved.


Under the new scheme, the subsidy per domestic subsidised cylinder will be fixed and all LPG consumers who join the Modified DBTL scheme in future will be able to receive LPG cash subsidy — either by linking Aadhaar number to the LPG account and bank database as the primary option or directly into the bank account without necessarily linking it with Aadhaar.

The government also said that all LPG consumers who had already joined the scheme solely based on Aadhaar number will start getting subsidy in their Aadhaar-linked bank accounts after scheme is launched.

In addition, there will be a grace period during which consumers who have not joined the DBTL scheme will continue to get LPG cylinders at the subsidised price.

If the consumer does not enrol for the scheme even after the three-month grace period, they would be eligible for an additional ‘Subsidy Parking Period’ lasting three months.

During this period, LPG cylinders to all such consumers will be supplied at market price, but the subsidy amount due on all LPG cylinders would be credited to the bank account as per the entitlement as soon as the consumer enrols for the DBTL scheme within this time frame, the government said.

The LPG consumers who will now join the modified scheme in future will get a permanent advance towards the purchase of the first market priced cylinder equal to the fixed subsidy per cylinder.

A revamped grievance redressal mechanism to attend to consumer grievances will be put in place.


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[krish44]

first natural gas prices are increased. since it is an input for gas based power plants, power price increase cannot be far behind and it is only a matter of time.

the lPG end price has a huge tax [central and state] built into it to raise the end price . then we talk of subsidy and make the poor feel like beggars

there is something seriously wrong with the taxation regime.

there can be more innovative ways of taxing people.

except the salaried class hardly anyone pays personal income tax.perhaps expenditures can be better taxed.

as far as wages are concerned , how many get minimum wages fixed by the govt.it is Rs 4400 per month for 4 hours work and twice that amount for 8 hrs.

Do we pay these amounts even at personal level to domestic workers who work at our homes.?

So a huge segment has to live on subsidies of various types.

we have opened out too much becoming a high cost economy.

we have reached a stage about 60 percent of our population can be called poor.

all enjoy freebies or support of some sort from govt.

Talking of high LPG prices when there is a glut in all market and a huge reduction in international prices are symptoms of a screwed up management of economy.

the threat to indian economy is not because of a few govt employees not working or petty corruption of the poor

it is from corporates and foreign players who are in indian stock market.

foreign players are likely to withdraw from debt and equity markets and corporates will increase NPAs in banks and borrow both in india and abroad and not

pay back. the corporates and traders generate the black money which they park abroad and no govt can get them back.