Offering additional subsidies aimed at benefiting rural women comes barely a month after the government approved the expansion of the PM Ujjwala Yojana scheme to 7.5 million women to take the number of total beneficiaries to 103.5 million over the next three years.
Beneficiaries of the Ujjwala Yojana, who earlier paid ₹703 for a 14.2-kg bottle against the market price of ₹903, will now have to pay ₹603. The subsidy increase comes weeks after the central government reduced the cooking gas cylinder price by ₹200 for all 2020 consumers.
The move to provide additional subsidies on cooking gas and extend Ujjwala Yojana's reach aims to support women ahead of crucial elections. During the recent special Parliament session, a law was passed to allocate one-third of parliamentary and assembly seats to women.
Anurag Thakur, minister of information and broadcasting, youth affairs and sports, who briefed reporters on cabinet decisions, did not specify the impact of the decision on the government's finances but said, "When we talk about the welfare of the poor, the government is not concerned with the financial burden on the exchequer but (only) on helping the poor."
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