NEW DELHI: Domestic cooking gas consumers in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram took the lead in voluntarily surrendering their subsidies, according to the Economic Survey 2019 presented on Thursday.
The Survey suggested a strategy tweak for improving the scheme’s efficacy by maintaining a centralized list of names of those who had given up their subsidies, independent of the gas company, and displaying their photographs in the “scroll of honour”. Currently, to find a name on the long lists, the consumer number of the subscriber needs to be entered.
This comes in the backdrop of marquee schemes such as the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), which provides free cooking gas connections to poor families, contributing to the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA’s) win in the 17th Lok Sabha elections.
