Nearly 85 lakh households across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) connections issued under the Deepam scheme are not getting the subsidy of ₹200 per cylinder like the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) beneficiaries.
They are also economically weak like the PMUY beneficiaries and yet deprived of the subsidy, said Telangana LPG Distributors Association president K.Jagan Mohan Reddy, who was part of the delegation of LPG leaders from the two States that met Union Minister G.Kishan Reddy and raised the anomaly.
“If they had not taken Deepam [cooking gas connections] then they would have been covered under the Ujjwala connections since they met the norms and thus also become eligible for the subsidy,” Mr.Jagan Mohan Reddy said.
