The Sheila Dikshit government has decided to raise the cap on subsidised cooking gas cylinders from 9 to 12 barrells per annum. The move, however, will benefit only the BPL (below poverty line) card holders. ...
12:50 PM, Jan 21, 2013
The government came under attack from its allies over the decision to partially deregulate diesel price. Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati called the decision anti-people and said the government was only thinking about the rich and not the poor. "This will lead to further price rise of commodities. The government should reconsider its decision," Mayawati said. ...
12:51 PM, Jan 18, 2013
The government on Thursday took the first major step towards the deregulation of diesel prices saying oil companies will be allowed to decide the prices and hike the prices in small amounts from time to time. ...
08:03 AM, Jan 18, 2013
The government on Thursday took the first step towards diesel decontrol and allowed the oil companies to raise prices from time to time, but kept the mechanism to be followed unclear. ...
04:42 PM, Jan 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Wednesday disapproved Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Veerappa Moily's announcement of raising subsidised LPG quota and asked him to be circumspect in future. Moily had announced that the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders could be raised from six to nine. Taking a note of the announcement, the Election Commission had served a notice to Moily saying that it was a violation of the...
06:38 PM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: A day after Election Commission rap, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister M Veerappa Moily on Wednesday said the government has not yet taken any decision on raising cap on supply of subsidised LPG cylinders and the EC would have been informed before announcing any decision. "If the proposals had been concretised and it was to be announced or decision was to be taken... I would have definitely...
11:43 AM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission has served a notice to Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily for announcing that the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders could be raised from six to nine. EC says this is a violation of the model code of conduct as the announcement comes barely 24 hours ahead of the first phase of polling in Gujarat. Moments after Moily spilled the beans on the government's plan to raise...
07:40 AM, Dec 12, 2012
The EC sends out a warning as the Centre announces a plan to raise the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders from six to nine. ...
09:15 PM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: Taking suo moto cognisance of reports of the Centre's move ahead of Gujarat assembly polls to increase the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders, the Election Commission has directed it to stop the same forthwith. The Commission held an emergency meeting soon after the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas M Veerappa Moily said the government will raise the cap on supply of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) to nine...
07:51 PM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Veerappa Moily on Tuesday indicated that the cap on the number of subsidised LPG cylinders a family can buy per year could be raised. Speaking to reporters, Moily said that the cap could be raised from six cylinders to nine. However, Finance Ministry sources said that no decision had been taken over the matter yet. Moily had said that the Cabinet would take...
06:18 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The CPM in Kerala on Saturday staged a protest against the central government's decision to cap the number of subsidized LPG cylinders by cooking food at various points along highways in the state. The Communist Party of India-Marxist activists set up about 7.75 lakh temporary ovens on the highways and women were asked to join the 775-km-long 'fire chain' protest in all the districts of the state. Participating in...
01:06 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: In a novel mode of protest against price rise and LPG subsidy cut, thousands of CPI(M) workers, sympathisers and their family members in Kerala on Saturday cooked food on highway sides in the entire stretch of the state to "symbolically express their anguish" at the anti-people policies of the central and state governments. Termed as "fire chain" protest, party leaders and workers, a majority of them women, set up...
07:45 PM, Dec 01, 2012
New Delhi: Finding it difficult to surrender the extra cooking gas LPG cylinder you have? Help is now just a click away. Consumers owning more than one LPG connection can now surrender the extra one online. All that they have to do is log-on to their respective company site and fill in surrender details and forget the rest. After that it will be the responsibility of the LPG dealer to...
06:47 PM, Nov 19, 2012
Thane: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday hinted at a relief for LPG consumers in the state. Addressing a programme in Dombivili town of Thane district, Chavan said the people of the state would soon get a "good news" regarding the LPG cylinders. However, he did not elaborate further on it. Earlier, the Centre had asked the Congress-led state governments in the country to raise the subsidised gas cylinders...
04:58 PM, Oct 23, 2012
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said the state cannot be treated at par with other states of the country on the LPG cap issue in view of sub-zero temperatures during winters. "I have told the Central Government that Jammu and Kashmir cannot be placed at par with Delhi and other states so far as supply of LPG is concerned," Omar said addressing a gathering in...
04:38 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Sunday ruled out a rollback or modification of its decision to cap supply of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) at 6 cylinders per household in a year as it will cast a "shadow" on the whole reform process. "No, absolutely not. There is no change (in the September 13 decision)," a top government source said. The government had on September 13 decided to cap supply of...
03:39 PM, Oct 14, 2012
Kolkata: Kids in state-run primary schools availing of mid-day meals in Kolkata and the rest of Bengal seem to be among the worst hit by the subsidy cap in LPG cylinders. The scheme is on the verge of collapse on account of the hike in cooking gas prices. For five years, Uttam Mitra has cooked mid-day meals for school students in a North Kolkata community kitchen which caters to the...
07:44 AM, Oct 13, 2012
New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has suggested to Petroleum Ministry to continue providing LPG cylinders at subsidised rate for the midday meal programme this fiscal amid concerns that the scheme could be hit by the cap on cooking gas. Noting that the cap on LPG for the midday meal at this stage would burden the Centre to compensate the states for the increased cooking fuel cost, he has...
07:02 PM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) protested against price rise and cap on LPG cylinders at Jantar Mantar in the capital on Friday. Senior BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley were at the rally as part of the party's 'Congress hatao, Desh bachao' (remove Congress, save the country) campaign targetting the UPA-2 government. "The UPA government came into power saying it would serve the common man. However, it...
02:24 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Bangalore: Hundreds of destitute people may go hungry due to the government's cap on LPG cylinders. The cap has risen pressure on NGOs who offer food, but say the new rule is hampering their work. At 'Home of Hope', a home for the abandoned, there is a fresh crisis. Now that the government has limited subsidised LPG cylinders to six, Auto Raja, the man who runs the home can no...
08:06 AM, Oct 12, 2012
