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The government has increased the subsidy for poor women under the Ujjwala scheme to Rs. 300 per cylinder for the next financial year. The subsidy of Rs. 300 per cylinder was applicable for the current financial year, ending on March 31.
Urea subsidy CS MoCF: 1977 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%.
Most of the LPG in India is imported, and it is subsidised by the central government for Indian citizens. It is the second largest consumer of liquefied petroleum gases in the world, with LPG consumption growing at an average rate of 8.4%. The increase in consumption is attributed to the BJP government’s Pradhan Mantri Ujwala Yojana scheme.
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. It is hoped that crediting subsidies into bank accounts will ...
Ujjwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) is the financial turnaround and revival package for electricity distribution companies of India (DISCOMs) initiated by the Government of India with the intent to find a permanent solution to the financial mess that the power distribution is in. [1] It allows state governments, which own the DISCOMs, to take over 75 percent of their debt as of September 30 ...
As per the Economic Survey of the Government of India of 2022–23, the general government (federal, states and local bodies combined) expenditure on social protection (direct cash transfers, financial inclusion, social benefits, health and other insurances, subsidies, free school meals, rural employment guarantee and housing grants for the low ...
This partially explains the spurt of 35.3 per cent in the expenditure on major subsidies in 2002–03. The spurt in major subsidies in 2002-03 was also because of an increase in food subsidy by Rs. 66.77 billion necessitated by the widespread drought in the country.
On 31 May 2019, he began his second consecutive tenure at the Ministry. Pradhan is credited with the success of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. [11] Over 8 million LPG connections were provided to women from Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. The International Energy Agency termed Ujjwala Yojana a "game-changer in ending energy poverty". [12]