{"id":386698,"date":"2020-11-28T10:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T05:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386698"},"modified":"2020-11-28T10:43:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T05:13:28","slug":"lpg-subsidy-for-bpcl-consumers-to-continue-post-privatisation-pradhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lpg-subsidy-for-bpcl-consumers-to-continue-post-privatisation-pradhan\/","title":{"rendered":"LPG subsidy for BPCL consumers to continue post-privatisation: Pradhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: LPG customers of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL NSE -1.32 %) 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 .<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: LPG customers of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL NSE -1.32 %) 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 . 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","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386698","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}