{"id":565618,"date":"2023-03-25T11:22:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T05:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=565618"},"modified":"2023-03-25T12:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T07:02:37","slug":"govt-extends-ujjwala-subsidy-for-another-yr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-extends-ujjwala-subsidy-for-another-yr\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt extends Ujjwala subsidy for another yr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government has extended the cooking gas subsidy for households under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana to the end of 2023-24 to \u201cshield\u201d beneficiaries from high LPG prices.<\/p>\n<p>As on March 1, there were 9.59 crore Ujjwala beneficiaries in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Rs 200 subsidy will be provided on a maximum of 12 refills and the total estimated expenditure on this count will be Rs 7,680 crore for 2023-24, the government said in a release after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, which approved the proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government has extended the cooking gas subsidy for households under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana to the end of 2023-24 to \u201cshield\u201d beneficiaries from high LPG prices. As on March 1, there were 9.59 crore Ujjwala beneficiaries in the country. The Rs 200 subsidy will be provided on a maximum of 12 refills and the total estimated expenditure on this count will be Rs 7,680 crore for 2023-24, the government said in a release after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, which approved the proposal.<\/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-565618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565618","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=565618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}