Each household with a LPG connection is entitled to 12 subsidised cylinders in a year. Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan recently said there was no plan to reduce the annual cap to nine subsidised cylinders.
Dealer commission was last revised in December 2013 by Rs 3.46 per cylinder to Rs 40.71. The latest revision has been put in place from October 23.
Each household with a LPG connection is entitled to 12 subsidised cylinders in a year. Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan recently said there was no plan to reduce the annual cap to nine subsidised cylinders.
Pradhan recently also liberalised the policy by giving freedom for households to consume the quota of subsidised cylinders as frequently as they want within a year. This was done to allow households to meet increased consumption during festivals or family functions. After exhausting the quota, households have to pay market rate, which is generally double the subsidised rate.
After the latest revision in dealer commission, subsidised cylinders in Delhi would costs Rs 417 against Rs 414. In Mumbai, a refill would cost Rs 452 against Rs 448.50.
The price of non-subsidised refills, which a consumer buys after consuming the quota of 12 subsidised cylinders, has also increased to Rs 883.50 per cylinder from Rs 880.
(Subsidised cooking gas rates have been hiked by Rs 3 per cylinder after the government raised the commission paid to dealers.)
There are 13,896 cooking gas distributors in the country. Before the December hike in LPG rates, price of cooking gas was raised in October 2012 when, because of an increase in dealer commission, the rates were raised from Rs 399 per cylinder to Rs 410.50.
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