{"id":405523,"date":"2021-03-18T10:25:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T04:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405523"},"modified":"2021-03-18T11:04:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:34:58","slug":"lpg-price-hike-figures-in-rajya-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lpg-price-hike-figures-in-rajya-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"LPG price hike figures in Rajya Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The steep hike in domestic cooking gas price figured in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday with a CPI(M) MP saying it has put an intolerable burden on the common people already suffering from general price rise.<\/p>\n<p>Raising the issue through a zero-hour mention, Jharna Das Baidya said subsidised and non-subsidised LPG prices were raised by a steep Rs 125 per cylinder in four installments since February.<\/p>\n<p>This together with a cut in fuel subsidy has put an \u201cintolerable burden on people already suffering from price rise,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Calling the price hike \u201cunjustified\u201d, she said free cooking gas connections given to eight crore beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana have been rendered meaningless because of the hike in cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The steep hike in domestic cooking gas price figured in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday with a CPI(M) MP saying it has put an intolerable burden on the common people already suffering from general price rise. Raising the issue through a zero-hour mention, Jharna Das Baidya said subsidised and non-subsidised LPG prices were raised by a steep Rs 125 per cylinder in four installments since February. This together with a cut in fuel subsidy has put an \u201cintolerable burden on people already suffering from price rise,\u201d she said. Calling the price hike \u201cunjustified\u201d, she said free cooking gas connections given to [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405523","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=405523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}