-The Hindu Switching to renewable energy sources in the country's midday meal programme will save millions of rupees. But only a few kitchens are doing anything about it, says the author. This is a story of facts and figures and sheer size. Of an auditorium-sized room dense with hot steam from cooking. Of seven tonnes of cooked rice and four tanker-loads of steaming sambar that needed 70 pairs of hands for cutting...
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Siddaramaiah to launch DBT in Tumkur district on Saturday-S Bhuvaneshwari
-The Hindu But, Aadhaar-LPG linkage is still tardy Tumkur: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will launch Aadhaar-linked Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) for LPG at the Birla Auditorium in Tumkur district on June 1, 2013. Addressing presspersons here on Thursday, district president of the Congress Shafi Ahmed said that Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister M. Veerappa Moily, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president G. Parameshwara, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Food and Civil Supplies Dinesh...
More »LPG subsidy amount to be deposited 3-4 days after booking
-The Times of India HYDERABAD: The Centre has finally made clear how the direct cash transfer of LPG subsidy would take place in Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Anantapur, Chittoor and East Godavari districts from June 1. Consumers, who have already linked their Aadhaar number to their bank account and LPG consumer number, will receive their LPG subsidy directly into their Aadhaar-linked bank account within 3-4 days of booking the cylinder. The consumer will then...
More »LPG subsidy To Be in Bank A/cs From June 1 in 18 Districts
-Outlook Starting June 1 cooking gas (LPG) consumers in 18 districts will get Rs 435 in their bank accounts when they book an LPG cylinder as the government rolls out its ambitious direct benefit transfer programme to cut its fuel subsidy. The scheme was to be rolled out in 20 districts initially but the launch in Mysore in Karnataka and Mandi in Himachal Pradesh has been put off by a month due...
More »Finance Ministry agrees to Rs 1 lakh cr diesel, LPG subsidy for FY'13
-PTI NEW DELHI: Finance Ministry today agreed to dole out a record Rs 100,000 crore towards diesel and cooking fuel subsidy in 2012-13 but wants pricing formula to be changed from current year to cut down the outgo. Finance Ministry, which had previously given out cash subsidy of Rs 55,000 crore, agreed to give Rs 40,000-45,000 crore more to cover for unmet revenue losses on fuel sale in the fiscal year ending...
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