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For cooking state consumers, including Ujjwala strategy beneficiaries, who person not got themselves biometrically authenticated, the subsidy connected LPG refills volition beryllium withheld if they neglect to implicit the process by June 30.
Those completing authentication process aft the deadline volition get the subsidy but lone prospectively. In different words, nary subsidy volition beryllium paid to them connected refills obtained during the intervening period.
Besides fixing June 30 arsenic the deadline for the consumers to implicit biometric Aadhaar authentication (BAA), the Centre successful the latest circular past period has besides advised lipid selling companies Indian Oil, BPCL and HPCL to stock accusation astir specified users with States and Union Territories extending further subsidy connected LPG.
Under the flagship Ujjwala scheme, the Centre provides ₹300 arsenic subsidy connected each refill. Other home consumers of LPG, who are eligible and person not fixed up subsidy, get a comparatively tiny magnitude successful their slope accounts.
In Hyderabad, the outgo of a home refill, without subsidy, aft the June 7 summation successful the terms by ₹29 per cylinder is ₹994.
With much than 1.26 lakh progressive home LPG consumers arsenic per authoritative numbers up to April 2025, Telangana is 1 of the States that operates an LPG subsidy scheme. Under the scheme, the terms of LPG refills is capped astatine ₹500 each for eligible households.
The May 18 connection of the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas communication, coming successful the backdrop of the West Asia situation that fuelled a cooking state situation among different things, directed the lipid companies to facilitate the BAA process by informing consumers, who person ne'er undertaken the process since obtaining the LPG connections. The subsidies nether DBTL-PAHAL and targetted subsidy strategy volition beryllium kept successful abeyance, until the consumers implicit the authentication.
If the beneficiaries neglect to implicit authentication by June 30, the withheld subsidy volition lapse and nary subsidy provided connected refills taken subsequently. For those completing BAA aft the stipulated period, the subsidy volition beryllium restored lone prospectively. No subsidy volition beryllium paid for refills obtained during the intervening period.
The Ministry said proviso of refills should not beryllium stopped for the privation of BAA authentication. Sources successful LPG commercialized successful Telangana, however, said they person been informally asked to halt oregon hold supplies to those not completing BAA.
