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Capacity under this scheme will be decided by the entrepreneur. But to get the subsidy, the capacity of the warehouse should be minimum 100 tonnes and maximum of 30,000 tonnes. [4] If the capacity is more than 30,000 tonnes or less than 100 tonnes then subsidy will not be given under this scheme.
Subsidy The first urea subsidy scheme was in 1977 in the form of Retention Price cum Subsidy scheme (RPS). From ₹ 4,389 crore (US$2.51 billion) in 1990 to ₹ 75,849 crore (US$17.43 billion) in 2008. As %ofGDP this is an increase from 0.8% to 1.5%. In 2022-23 financial outlay is ₹ 63,222 crore (equivalent to ₹ 710 billion or US$8.2 ...
Initially, the scheme was launched for the period from April—June 2020, with a cost of ₹ 1.70 lakh crore (US$20 billion) to the exchequer. [22] The scheme was further extended to November 2020 in a later address to the nation by Modi. By the end of May 2020, the food ministry estimated that the program had reached 740 million beneficiaries.
In case of food subsidy, PDS suffers from considerable leakage and apart from a low coverage of poor; the magnitude of benefit derived by the poor is very small. In case of electricity, the subsidy rates have been rising for both agriculture and domestic sectors because the unit cost has been rising faster than the relevant tariff-rate.
Even before the advent of Five-Year plans of India, the practice of providing Central Assistance to the States to finance development schemes had been in vogue.After World War II, the Central Government along with Provincial Governments embarked on developmental projects which received Central Assistance in the form of grants that were called post-war development grants.
Includes Biju Yuva Vahini sub-scheme to promote youths in leadership, volunteering, sports and health. [18] [19] Free laptop distribution in 2019 for merit list Class XII students 'Khusi' Jojana: 26 February 2018: Health and Family Welfare: Women Empowerment: Sanitary napkins for adolescent girls in Classes 6 to 12 in government and government ...
Direct Benefit Transfer [a] or DBT is an attempt to change the mechanism of transferring subsidies launched by Government of India on 1 January 2013. This scheme or program aims to establish a Giro system to transfer subsidies directly to the people through their linked bank accounts.
In 2015, Rajiv Gandhi Gram LPG Vidarak scheme was discontinued. [31] From 2009 to 2016, 1.62 crore households were provided with LPG before the Ujjwala scheme. On 31 March 2016, the subsidy for purchase of fuel given to below poverty line households through the Corporate Social Responsibility Fund was discontinued. [32]