A 14.2 kg cooking gas refill costs Rs 903 in Delhi. For Ujjwala customers, the effective price is Rs 702, which will now drop to Rs 602. There are about 31 crore cooking gas customers in the country, including 9.6 crore Ujjwala beneficiaries. Non-Ujjwala customers do not get subsidy.
The Cabinet has approved the release of 7.5 million free cooking gas connections over three years under the Ujjwala scheme, under which a poor household receives an LPG connection, the first refill and a stove for free.
The Centre on Tuesday slashed the prices of LPG cylinders by Rs 200 and announced an additional subsidy of Rs 200 to 10.35 crore consumers under the Ujjwala Scheme.