{"id":287471,"date":"2019-08-17T05:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T05:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=287471"},"modified":"2019-08-17T05:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T05:43:09","slug":"make-cooking-gas-cheaper-for-poor-remove-subsidy-for-rich-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/make-cooking-gas-cheaper-for-poor-remove-subsidy-for-rich-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Make cooking gas cheaper for poor, remove subsidy for rich: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The subsidy on liquefied petroleum gas (cooking gas) cylinders for India&#8217;s newly-connected 73 million poor households should be increased enough to limit the cost of a cylinder to 4% of a household\u2019s monthly expenditure, according to a study.<\/p>\n<p>The subsidy should only be provided to poor households, and the wealthy should be removed from the beneficiaries list, according to the June 15, 2019, policy brief titled \u201cUjjwala 2.0\u201d by Collaborative Clean Air Policy Centre (CCAPC), a multi-organisational initiative. <\/p>\n<p>With these two changes the central government\u2019s Ujjwala scheme can help poor families make cooking gas their primary cooking fuel, and not burn firewood and cow dung, the easily available biomass fuels, the policy brief stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The subsidy on liquefied petroleum gas (cooking gas) cylinders for India&#8217;s newly-connected 73 million poor households should be increased enough to limit the cost of a cylinder to 4% of a household\u2019s monthly expenditure, according to a study. The subsidy should only be provided to poor households, and the wealthy should be removed from the beneficiaries list, according to the June 15, 2019, policy brief titled \u201cUjjwala 2.0\u201d by Collaborative Clean Air Policy Centre (CCAPC), a multi-organisational initiative. With these two changes the central government\u2019s Ujjwala scheme can help poor families make cooking gas their primary cooking fuel, and not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}