LPG subsidy flow stops after credits to Airtel accounts

Beneficiaries say unaware that sops were paid to payments bank accounts

Waseem Khan, a resident of Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh, is among the 3.72 million beneficiaries facing difficulties in getting a domestic gas subsidy in their bank accounts. Khan claimed his family has not received any subsidy for the past few months despite having provided his Aadhaar and bank account numbers to the local gas supplier.

Officials in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas admitted that there was a problem of delayed payments to beneficiaries. “About 3.72 million consumers are facing problems related to the subsidy as a large number of them are unaware of their newly opened accounts with