-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a clear indication of the nervousness over rising oil prices evoking popular anger, the government has asked state-run fuel retailers to stop raising the price of subsidised cooking gas cylinders by Rs 4 a month. The order was issued in October, around the same time the government cut excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 2 per litre to stave off rising consumer anger...
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Jet fuel price hiked by 6%; LPG costlier by Rs 1.50 a cylinder
-PTI NEW DELHI: Jet fuel or ATF price was on Sunday hiked by a steep 6 per cent on firming international rates, the third straight increase in rates since August. Aviation turbine fuel (ATF) will now cost Rs 53,045 per kilolitre (kl) in Delhi, Rs 3,025 per kl more than Rs 50,020 previously, according to a price hike notification by Indian Oil Corp, the nation's biggest fuel retailer. This is the third consecutive...
More »Feeding insecurities -Reetika Khera
-The Hindu Business Line Aadhaar does more damage than good in welfare programmes It is widely believed that Aadhaar-Based Biometric Authentication (ABBA) is necessary to improve the delivery of welfare programmes such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), Public Distribution System (PDS), social security pensions, and so on. This is a misconception. We have been studying these programmes for a decade, focusing mainly on the source of leakages and...
More »Centre joins issue with CAG over LPG
-The Hindu The Centre had carried out an exercise to eliminate duplicate, fake, ghost, and inactive accounts New Delhi: The Petroleum Ministry has issued a rebuttal claiming its calculations were correct on the savings on account of direct benefit transfer in LPG cylinders tabled in Parliament. A report by the Comptroller and Auditor General had questioned the method arrived at on the savings, more than 10 days ago. The report, tabled on August 12,...
More »Government says Rs 21,000 crore saved in LPG subsidy under DBT scheme
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday said that close to Rs 21,000 crore was saved in two years by directly transferring subsidy (DBT) to user bank accounts. The savings are largely from the elimination of fake/ghost/duplicate/inactive domestic LPG connections. Over 3.34 crore of these connections were done away with after the implementation of DBT. According to government calculations, 3.34 crore blocked consumers would have used up Rs 14,818.4...
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