New Delhi: India has cut prices of cooking gas cylinders by 200 rupees ($2.42) for all domestic consumers, the information minister said on Tuesday, ahead of national elections in 2024.
This will double the subsidy to 400 rupees per 14.2 kilogram cylinder of cooking gas sold to the poor under a federal welfare programme called the “Ujjwala scheme”.
($1 = 82.6922 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Nidhi Verma, Rupam Jain; editing by Jason Neely)
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