INDIA: #GiveItUp Scheme - Voluntary Giving up LPG Subsidy

Meta Data
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Effective Start Year: 
2015
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Programme, Other
Economic Sector: 
Energy
Energy Types: 
Oil, Gas
Issued by: 
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Source: 
Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
File: 
#GiveItUp Scheme - Voluntary Giving up LPG Subsidy
Overall Summary: 
The #GiveItUp Scheme - Voluntary Giving up LPG Subsidy campaign is aimed at motivating LPG users who can afford to pay the market price for LPG to voluntarily surrender their LPG subsidy.
Pricing
Fossil fuel subsidies: 
Objective: Encourage well-to-do households to give up LPG subsidy and enable provision of LPG, a clean fuel, to poor households by replacing the fossil fuels such as SKO, coal, fuel wood, cow dung, crop residue, etc. This will not only help women and children lead a healthy life, free of smoke and drudgery but also improve our environment.