Subsidies on cooking gas could be further reduced

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Although the price of cooking gas cylinders continues to touch Rs 600, there is little hope of increasing the subsidy. The 12 cylinders that are subsidized a year - at almost the same price.

Subsidies on cooking gas could be further reduced

Must buy. This is because government sources indicate that the subsidy on cooking gas may be further reduced. From today, the price of the unsubsidized cooking gas cylinders has gone up to Tk 69,550 in Kolkata. The price for so many days was 745.50 rupees. But the subsidy was 19.56 rupees, that is, 12 cylinders were subsidized in the book, but he had to pay about 626 rupees. Will the subsidy increase after the price of the cylinder increases by 50 rupees this time? Coarse sand According to government sources, the way in which Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman cut the subsidy on petroleum products in the budget on February 1, there is no possibility of increasing the subsidy. On the contrary, it can be further reduced. Unsubsidized and subsidized. The price of the cylinder will be almost the same. About 27 crore cooking gas consumers will face an additional burden. In the budget, the allocation for petroleum products has been reduced to one-third. In 2020-21, about Tk 41,000 crore was allocated for subsidy on petroleum products. But as amended, it has been cut to Rs 39,000 crore. Less than Tk 13,000 crore has been allocated for the next financial year. An official of the Ministry of Finance said that due to the deregulation of diesel prices for the last financial year, only cooking gas and kerosene have to be subsidized. Since last year, the subsidy has been reduced by gradually increasing the price of cooking gas and kerosene. Subsidies will also be reduced in the next financial year. According to a Petroleum Ministry source, when the cooking gas subsidy was introduced directly into bank accounts in 2015, there would be a cost per cylinder.

At that time subsidy was given at the rate of Rs. Now it has come down to less than 20 rupees. Today, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has termed the rise in cooking gas prices as a "loot from the people" to arm the Maedi government. Recently, Maedi called the government ‘Hum Do, Hamare Do’ - the government, Takma Rahul said, ‘the only goal of the government is the development of two people. At the AICC headquarters, Congress spokesperson Supriya Srinivasan held a press conference in front of a gas cylinder. Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala's question, "Is this a good day? He argued that the price of cooking gas has gone up by Rs 165 per cylinder in the last two and a half months since December. Apart from the Congress, the Biju Janata Dal in Orissa, which maintains good relations with the Center, has also expressed concern over the rise in cooking gas, petrol and diesel prices. BJD national spokesperson Prasanna Acharya said, "When the price of crude oil is not going up, why is the price of fuel going up in this country?" The center should be sympathetic. "A few days ago, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said in Parliament that there is no plan to address the common man by reducing excise duty on petrol and diesel. According to a Congress spokesperson, production has increased more than 12 times in the Maedi era. The government has earned about Tk 24 lakh crore." The tax was levied at Tk 3, petrol at Tk 9, now diesel at Tk 32, petrol at Tk 33. Diesel in Kolkata has gone up by Tk 63. Diesel is being sold at IOC pumps in Kolkata today, Tuesday at Rs 35 per liter. The price of petrol has gone up by 29 paise per liter to Tk 90.54 per liter, taking the price of petrol and diesel to Rs 224 and 256 per liter for eight consecutive days in Kolkata.