-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Food ministry is working on a pilot to emulate the direct Cooking Gas subsidy transfer scheme model for public distribution system (PDS) of subsidised foodgrains. The beneficiaries will get the subsidy amount in advance in their bank accounts and they will have to buy the foodgrains from any ration shop, which has got the electronic point of sale (e-PoS) devices. The food ministry recently sent three...
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Modi's pet Ujjawala scheme wobbles as many beneficiaries drop out after their first LPG cylinder -Dhirendra K Jha
-Scroll.in The number of LPG connections extended under this scheme may be rising rapidly, but LPG usage is not. The aim was to free poor women from smoke-filled kitchens by giving them Cooking Gas connections. But one year after it was launched, the Pradhan Mantri Ujjawala Yojana seems to have run into rough weather. On paper, the central government scheme which provides free liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, connections to below the...
More »After LPG success, Narendra Modi government wants public to give up food subsidies -Sandip Das
-The Financial Express Buoyed by the success of the Give-It-Up campaign that coaxed over 1 crore households to forgo the subsidy on Cooking Gas, the Centre has written to all state governments seeking their support for a similar scheme to cut its rising food subsidy bill. Sources told FE that the Union food ministry in a communication to states has said Give-it-Up should be promoted under the Targeted Public Distribution System...
More »Five reasons why Aadhaar shouldn't be applied universally -Mitali Saran
-Business Standard Not only is your privacy stripped stark naked, the system itself is illegal and vulnerable Indians have serious red tape PTSD. We live with chronic anxiety about the documents that get us the entitlements and paid services we need — food, Cooking Gas, SIM cards, sale deeds, passports and so on. We’re so tyrannised by bureaucracy that when we hear of an official document that might simplify life, we fall...
More »Aadhaar is now must for free LPG connection under PMUY scheme
-PTI New Delhi: The government has made having an Aadhaar card must for poor women to avail of free Cooking Gas (LPG) connection under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. While the government in October last year had made the unique identification number mandatory for everyone to get LPG subsidies, it has now extended the same for free Cooking Gas connections to women of BPL households. The government had last year launched the Pradhan...
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