The government has decided to allow 12 subsidised cooking gas cylinders to households, removing the annual nine-cylinder cap, besides putting on hold subsidy payments directly into bank accounts—a move that deals a crippling blow to the UPA’s much-touted Aadhaar-based direct benefit transfer scheme.
The scheme was supposed to be a game-changer for the Congress in the lead-up to the elections and help the government check leakages from the subsidy schemes. However, Thursday’s cabinet decision prompted by Congress vicepresident Rahul Gandhi’s public demand has virtually put a question mark on the ambitious subsidy trimming programme.
The scheme was supposed to be a game-changer for the Congress in the lead-up to the elections and help the government check leakages from the subsidy schemes. However, Thursday’s cabinet decision prompted by Congress vicepresident Rahul Gandhi’s public demand has virtually put a question mark on the ambitious subsidy trimming programme.
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