{"id":342348,"date":"2020-03-19T10:34:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T05:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=342348"},"modified":"2020-03-19T10:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T05:04:21","slug":"lpg-cylinder-price-hiked-by-%e2%82%b935-55-in-5-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lpg-cylinder-price-hiked-by-%e2%82%b935-55-in-5-months\/","title":{"rendered":"LPG cylinder price hiked by \u20b935.55 in 5 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The price of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) has been hiked by \u20b935.55 per cylinder in the last five months, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>As per government policy, LPG all over the country is available only at market price. However, households are entitled to buying 12 cylinders of 14.2-kg each at a subsidised rate in a year. The government transfers the subsidy amount directly into the bank accounts which the beneficiaries use to buy LPG at the market price.<\/p>\n<p>The subsidised LPG price has gone up by \u20b935.55 per cylinder since October. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Pradhan said domestic subsidised LPG in Delhi was priced at \u20b9538.95 per cylinder on October 1, 2019, and this month it costs \u20b9574.50. He did not give any reason for the price increase.<\/p>\n<p>While non-subsidised or market priced LPG has varied from month to month based on benchmark international rates, subsidised LPG prices have been raised every month by \u20b94 per cylinder plus taxes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The price of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) has been hiked by \u20b935.55 per cylinder in the last five months, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Wednesday. As per government policy, LPG all over the country is available only at market price. However, households are entitled to buying 12 cylinders of 14.2-kg each at a subsidised rate in a year. The government transfers the subsidy amount directly into the bank accounts which the beneficiaries use to buy LPG at the market price. The subsidised LPG price has gone up by \u20b935.55 per cylinder since October. In a written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342348","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}