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Rich Delhi and Tamil Nadu homes make biggest shift towards electric cooking

CEEW study found that penetration of e-cooking was 10.3% in urban homes, and just 2.7% in rural. Overall, just 5% of households across the country have shifted to this mode of preparing meals

LPG price hiked by Rs 15/cylinder; petrol, diesel at all-time high

Cooking gas LPG price on Wednesday was hiked by Rs 15 per cylinder while petrol and diesel rates saw their steepest increase in recent weeks, pushing prices to all-time high levels across the country. Rates of both subsidised and non-subsidised LPG were hiked, taking the total increase in rates since July to Rs 90 per 14.2-kg cylinder. Cooking gas now costs Rs 899.50 per cylinder in Delhi and Mumbai, and Rs 926 in Kolkata, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. The government has through periodic increases eliminated subsidies on LPG in most cities. Domestic household kitchens, who are entitled to 12 cylinders of 14.2-kg each at subsidised rates in a year, and Ujjwala beneficiaries, who got free connections, now pay the market price. A 5-kg LPG cylinder now costs Rs 502. This is the fourth increase in LPG prices since July. Rates were increased by Rs 25.50 per cylinder in July, followed by Rs 25 hike each on August 17 and September 1. Alongside, petrol p

PMUY beneficiaries may continue using around three cylinders a year

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas had introduced PMUY as a flagship scheme with an objective to make LPG available to the rural and deprived households

PMUY 2.0 nears 10 mn LPG connections target, 9.5 mn KYCs already in place

2.3 million connections disbursed between August 10 and September 15

Negligible subsidy regime widens doors for pvt firms to expand domestic LPG

Reliance Gas, GoGas, and Aegis Gas could step up

PM Modi launches Ujjwala 2.0 for providing free LPG connections

After the formal launch, the prime minister distributed free gas connections to 10 women virtually.

58 patients evacuated after LPG leakage at Mumbai's hospital; all safe

A total of 58 patients, 20 of them undergoing treatment for coronavirus, were evacuated after LPG leakage was reported at the civic-run Kasturba Hospital in Mumbai's Chinchpokli area

Petrol, diesel prices may soften by month-end as Brent stabilises

But prices may remain uncomfortably high for most consumers

Centre seeks legal opinion to let BPCL sell subsidised LPG after stake sale

Currently, BPCL has more than 8.4 crore domestic LPG customers, including 2.1 crore Ujjwala customers.

LPG customers may get to decide distributor of their choice on refill form

While booking an LPG refill through a mobile app/customer portal using registered login, the customer would be shown the list of delivering distributors along with their performance rating

OMCs pay 73% higher excise duty even as crude oil prices decline

The top four OMCs paid all-time high excise duty of Rs 2.87 trn in FY21, up from Rs 1.66 trn in FY20

Fuel prices ease after record high, LPG to be cheaper by Rs 10 from today

Petrol now costs Rs 90.56 per litre in Delhi and a litre of diesel comes for Rs 80.87. Rates have been reduced across the country and vary from state to state

Next leg of Ujjwala scheme to focus on affordability of LPG: Oil ministry

Oil companies wait to recover around Rs 4,500 cr from existing PMUY beneficiaries

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High price of LPG cylinders forcing the poor to return to firewood

At the price of Rs 819, LPG refills beyond the reach of most PMUY beneficiaries.

Only half of urban slum households use LPG exclusively: Study

An independent study on the usage of the LPG shows that very few households, even in urban areas, use the cleaner fuel in their kitchen

LPG consumption up 7.3% despite price rise: Oil companies

Usage among the PMUY beneficiaries, who are mostly poor rural households, jumped near 20 per cent

Slum households still using polluting fuels despite govt's LPG push: Study

Policy group CEEW says government scheme 'must target poor households' to move to LPG.

Rajya Sabha washout over uproar on increasing petrol-diesel prices

The Opposition's continuous uproar and persistent demand for a discussion on the increase in petrol, diesel and LPG prices on Monday led to washout of the day's proceedings in Rajya Sabha.

Subsidised, non-subsidised LPG price hiked by Rs 25 per cylinder

The hike also applies to Ujjwala scheme beneficiaries