NEW DELHI: LPG subsidy will be given only to poor households with ‘Ujjwala’ connections and all others will have to pay market price but the government is likely to continue to keep fuel prices in check.
“Subsidies by definition are not designed to get entrenched and increased. Subsidies by definition have to be depressive,” oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday.
Petroleum secretary Pankaj Jain said “no subsidy is paid on cooking gas since June 2020 and the only subsidy that is provided is the one that finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on May 21.”
Last month, Sitharaman announced fuel tax cuts and LPG subsidy of Rs 200 for Ujjwala connection holders, raising hopes of relief among general category consumers. The remaining 21.5 crore general category consumers will have to pay more than Rs 1,000 for a refill.
