Aadhar-less consumers likely to forgo subsidy
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, July 13 2016: LPG consumers who fail to submit Aadhar numbers to their respective LPG distributors would not get subsidy given on LPG refills.

According to information received from IOC's Imphal Divisional Retail Sales Office, transferring of subsidy amounts to the bank accounts of LPG consumers who have submitted Aadhar numbers has started/since July 1 .

There are around 3.26 lakh LPG consumers in the State.

Around 70 per cent of them have submitted their Aadhar numbers so far and approximately 58.8 per cent of the total households of the State have access to LPG cooking gas.

Earlier, LPG consumers who submitted bank account numbers but not Aadhar numbers were still given subsidy on LPG refills through their bank accounts.

However, since July 1, LPG subsidy for consumers who have not submitted their Aadhar numbers have been 'kept on hold'.

As for consumers who have submitted Aadhar numbers, transfer of subsidy amounts to their respective bank accounts has started.

The subsidy amount 'kept on hold' would get lapsed from October 1 if Aadhar numbers are not submitted by September 30 and they would not get the subsidy amounts entitled to them.

Consumers who submit their Aadhar numbers by September 30 would get the subsidy amounts entitled to them, informed the official source.

Through Aadhar numbers, IOC can easily detect if any single household is enjoying multiple LPG connections and once detected the multiple connections would be invalidated automatically.

Even though there is variance in the price of an LPG cylinder among different distributors, its average price is Rs 2500.As such, distributors cannot charge more than Rs 2500 for a cylinder.

This amount of Rs 2500 includes security deposit of Rs 1150, price for one refill, installation charge, mechanical fee and charge for generation of new blue book, added the source.

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