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  3.5 lakh well-off people have given up subsidised LPGs: PM Modi

  April 12, 2015 12:44 IST

  Paris: Around 3.5 lakh well-off people have given up subsidised LPGs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said, noting that the money saved on this will be diverted to those who still use wood for cooking.Addressing

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  "Give it up", PM Modi asks better-offs to forgo LPG subsidy

  Politics | April 03, 2015 22:58 IST

  Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday coined a new slogan - "give it up" - to exhort the better off sections of society to forego their LPG subsidy that can be utilised in providing

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  Government targets 1 crore consumers to give up LPG subsidy

  March 30, 2015 10:15 IST

  New Delhi: Government expects that about one crore well off consumers will surrender the subsidy on cooking gas after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal to people not to take subsidy if they can afford to

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  PM Modi appeals to well-off people to give up subsidised LPG

  India | March 27, 2015 18:01 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today appealed to the well off people to give up subsidised cooking gas, and expressed his government's resolve to reduce dependence on energy imports by 10 per cent by

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  Need to gradually rationalise all subsidies: Jaitley

  January 19, 2015 11:50 IST

  Chennai: Ahead of the 2015-16 Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said there was a need to rationalise all subsidies and ensure stability in policies to attract investment and drive growth.  “From January 1 LPG

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  LPG consumers to get cash subsidy in bank A/Cs from today

  January 01, 2015 8:46 IST

  New Delhi: LPG consumers across the country will from today get cash subsidy in their bank accounts and will have to buy the cooking fuel at market price.Domestic LPG users will get Rs 568 in

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  Govt to streamline subsidies, cheap LPG for rich may go: Jaitley

  November 23, 2014 13:26 IST

  New Delhi: A reduction of the scope of subsidies currently being provided to well-off people appears to be on the anvil with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley questioning the justification of ‘unquantified' subsidy amounts to 'unidentifiable'

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  Aadhar not must for LPG subsidy under modified DBT

  India | October 19, 2014 7:56 IST

  New Delhi: Cooking gas (LPG) consumers will be able to get subsidy directly in their bank accounts from November 15 even if they don't have Aadhar numbers, as the government will re-launch the Modified Direct

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  LPG consumers can avail 12 cylinder quota anytime now

  August 27, 2014 20:05 IST

  New Delhi: In a relief to consumers, the Cabinet today lifted the restriction of supply of only one subsidised cooking gas LPG cylinder to a household in a month, saying consumers can avail their quota

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  Oil companies transfer over Rs 2,000 cr to 40 million consumers for LPG subsidy

  India | December 27, 2013 10:02 IST

  New Delhi: In the last six months, the Government has transferred over Rs 2,000 crore in the accounts of 40 million consumers under the Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG (DBTL) scheme in 184 districts."The scheme

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  Mamata opposes linking of LPG subsidy with Aadhaar cards

  India | November 01, 2013 21:37 IST

  Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has opposed linking of LPG subisdy disbursement with Aadhar cards saying that hardly 15 per cent of people in her state have Aadhaar cards.  Writing in her Facebook

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  LPG subsidy directly in bank accounts from June 1 in 18 districts

  India | May 29, 2013 19:00 IST

  New Delhi, May 29: Starting June 1 cooking gas (LPG) consumers in 18 districts will get Rs 435 in their bank accounts when they book an LPG cylinder as the government rolls out its ambitious