Minister Hardeep Puri Monday said this will apply to both Ujjwala & non-Ujjwala. From Rs 500, it will go up to Rs 550 for PMUY beneficiaries, for others it will go from Rs 803 to Rs 853.
Opposition, led by Congress, has often taken potshots at the BJP-led Centre for failing to rein in fuel prices & its ripple effect on prices of essential food items, other commodities.
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".
Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.
In his new book, CDS emphasises that India secures itself through policy & structure, not a written NSS document. Israel never released a formal NSS, he mentions.
Pakistani establishments and their proxies are prone to severe, predictable 7-year-itch. Each step up the escalation ladder buys India about this many years of deterrence on average.
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