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The Times of India
The Times of India
Business
Sanjay Dutta | TNN

LPG subsidy only for poor, no respite from record price for others

NEW DELHI: LPG subsidy will be given only to poor households with ‘Ujjwala’ connections and all others will have to pay market price but the government is likely to continue to keep fuel prices in check.

“Subsidies by definition are not designed to get entrenched and increased. Subsidies by definition have to be depressive,” oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday.

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