{"id":386663,"date":"2020-11-28T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T03:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386663"},"modified":"2020-11-28T09:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T04:29:33","slug":"lpg-subsidy-for-bpcl-consumers-to-continue-post-privatisation-dharmendra-pradhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lpg-subsidy-for-bpcl-consumers-to-continue-post-privatisation-dharmendra-pradhan\/","title":{"rendered":"LPG subsidy for BPCL consumers to continue post-privatisation: Dharmendra Pradhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LPG customers of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) will continue to get cooking gas subsidy post-privatisation of the nation&#8217;s second-biggest fuel retailers, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Subsidy on LPG is paid to consumers directly and not to any company. So the ownership of the company that sells LPG is not of any material consequence,&#8221; Pradhan told PTI.<\/p>\n<p>The government gives 12 cooking gas (LPG) cylinders of 14.2-kg each to households in a year at a subsidised rate. This subsidy is directly paid into the bank accounts of the users.<\/p>\n<p>The subsidy is paid in advance and consumers use this to buy LPG refills that are available only at market price from dealers of oil marketing companies &#8212; Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), BPCL and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LPG customers of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) will continue to get cooking gas subsidy post-privatisation of the nation&#8217;s second-biggest fuel retailers, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Friday. &#8220;Subsidy on LPG is paid to consumers directly and not to any company. So the ownership of the company that sells LPG is not of any material consequence,&#8221; Pradhan told PTI. The government gives 12 cooking gas (LPG) cylinders of 14.2-kg each to households in a year at a subsidised rate. This subsidy is directly paid into the bank accounts of the users. The subsidy is paid in advance and consumers [&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-386663","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\/386663","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=386663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}