{"id":305379,"date":"2019-12-12T12:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T06:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=305379"},"modified":"2019-12-12T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T07:09:31","slug":"cag-lifts-the-lid-on-cylinder-scam-under-ujjwala-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cag-lifts-the-lid-on-cylinder-scam-under-ujjwala-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"CAG lifts the lid on cylinder scam under Ujjwala scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking diversion of cooking gas cylinders meant for BPL families under the flagship Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), data from a CAG audit report showed that about 2.61 lakh BPL consumers bought two subsidised LPG refills each in a single day in about three lakh instances from two state-owned oil companies. <\/p>\n<p>In some cases, over 1,300 consumers purchased 12 cylinders each in a day between May 2016, when the scheme was launched, and December 2018. Nearly 7,000 bought four cylinders a day; 4,000 BPL beneficiaries were issued five refills a day. <\/p>\n<p>Two public sector oil companies \u2014 IOCL and HPCL \u2014 which lacked effective mechanism to restrict booking or delivery of more than one refill a day, together issued 2 to 20 refills to 2.98 lakh beneficiaries during 2016-2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking diversion of cooking gas cylinders meant for BPL families under the flagship Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), data from a CAG audit report showed that about 2.61 lakh BPL consumers bought two subsidised LPG refills each in a single day in about three lakh instances from two state-owned oil companies. In some cases, over 1,300 consumers purchased 12 cylinders each in a day between May 2016, when the scheme was launched, and December 2018. Nearly 7,000 bought four cylinders a day; 4,000 BPL beneficiaries were issued five refills a day. Two public sector oil companies \u2014 IOCL [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305379","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=305379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}