Consumers can buy more than 1 subsidised LPG cylinder per month

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: LPG consumers will now get 12 cylinders of 14.2-kg at subsidised rate in a year even if they don't consume one cylinder a month, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday.

The UPA government had raised the annual cap on supply of cheaper LPG from nine to 12 cylinders of 14.2-kg each on January 30. It was inferred this meant one cylinder in a month.

This led to protests as households do not uniformly use one cylinder in a month and some require refills earlier.

The government had initially capped the supply of subsidised LPG cylinders to six per household annually in September 2012 in a bid to cut its subsidy bill. The quota was raised to nine in January 2013.

With agency inputs