{"id":404591,"date":"2021-03-12T11:34:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T06:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=404591"},"modified":"2021-03-12T11:34:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T06:04:20","slug":"lpg-consumption-up-7-3-per-cent-despite-price-rise-oil-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lpg-consumption-up-7-3-per-cent-despite-price-rise-oil-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"LPG consumption up 7.3 per cent despite price rise: Oil companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Cooking gas LPG consumption rose 7.3 per cent in the last three months despite a steep price rise, with usage among the PMUY beneficiaries, who are mostly poor rural households, jumping near 20 per cent, state-owned oil companies said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LPG consumption has improved amongst PMUY customers,&#8221; Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) said in a statement. Cooking gas consumption between December 2020 and February 2021, the period that saw a massive Rs 175 per cylinder increase in rates across all categories, jumped 19.5 per cent among the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) beneficiaries &#8212; the over 8 crore poor households that got free connection since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>An identical statement was also issued by privatisation-bound Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL).<\/p>\n<p>The statements came amid opposition parties such as Congress and the TMC attacking the government over the relentless increase in fuel prices impacting the common man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Cooking gas LPG consumption rose 7.3 per cent in the last three months despite a steep price rise, with usage among the PMUY beneficiaries, who are mostly poor rural households, jumping near 20 per cent, state-owned oil companies said. &#8220;LPG consumption has improved amongst PMUY customers,&#8221; Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) said in a statement. Cooking gas consumption between December 2020 and February 2021, the period that saw a massive Rs 175 per cylinder increase in rates across all categories, jumped 19.5 per cent among the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) beneficiaries &#8212; the over 8 crore poor households [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404591","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=404591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}