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Ahead of general elections, the government on Thursday announced the extension of 300 per LPG cylinder subsidy to poor women under the Ujjwala Yojana for the next fiscal starting April 1.s)..
The government had in October last year hiked the subsidy from 200 per 14.2-kg cylinders for up to 12 refills per year to 300 per bottle..
The 300 per cylinder subsidy was for the current fiscal, which ends on March 31..
To make Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG), a clean cooking fuel, available to rural and deprived poor households, the government launched Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in May 2016 to provide deposit-free LPG connections to adult women of poor households..
As fuel prices soared, the government in May 2022 provided a 200 per cylinder subsidy to PMUY beneficiaries..
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