{"id":291328,"date":"2019-09-12T07:18:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T07:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291328"},"modified":"2019-09-12T07:18:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T07:18:13","slug":"govt-manages-to-hit-target-on-deposit-free-lpg-connections-but-stumped-by-poor-refill-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-manages-to-hit-target-on-deposit-free-lpg-connections-but-stumped-by-poor-refill-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt manages to hit target on deposit-free LPG connections, but stumped by poor refill orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extending subsidies and a renewed push by oil marketing companies have helped the Centre achieve its target of disbursing 8 crore free cooking gas connections before the March 2020 deadline. But providing connections is just one part of the push towards cleaner and reliable cooking fuels. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecipients of these deposit-free LPG connections are hesitant to opt for a refill due to the upfront high costs of LPG refills. They are limited by their purchasing power and would use cooking gas sparingly,\u201d Sailesh Jain, Executive President of the All- India LPG Distributors\u2019 Federation, told BusinessLine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extending subsidies and a renewed push by oil marketing companies have helped the Centre achieve its target of disbursing 8 crore free cooking gas connections before the March 2020 deadline. But providing connections is just one part of the push towards cleaner and reliable cooking fuels. \u201cRecipients of these deposit-free LPG connections are hesitant to opt for a refill due to the upfront high costs of LPG refills. They are limited by their purchasing power and would use cooking gas sparingly,\u201d Sailesh Jain, Executive President of the All- India LPG Distributors\u2019 Federation, told BusinessLine.<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291328","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=291328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}