The Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department has clarified that no deadline has been fixed for cooking gas consumers to update their E KYC details to avail cooking gas subsidy.
In a statement here, the Joint Director of Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, Mysuru, the Central government or Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) companies in the country had neither fixed a deadline for completing the E KYC or electronically verifying the authenticity of the customer nor stipulated any fee to be paid for the purpose.
The E KYC procedure is free and a continuing procedure. LPG customers, who had availed a cooking gas connection under Prime Minister’s Ujwala Yojane and those availing subsidy from the Government should be completing the procedure on a priority basis, the statement issued by Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department in Mysuru pointed out.
