Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 30
Launched in 12 cities
- The scheme has been launched in 12 cities, including Chandigarh, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Patna and Pune
- Under 'Sahaj', new LPG connections will be released online through www.mylpg.in
- Customers can register for new LPG connections as well as make payments online
2-kg cylinders soon
- After the launch of 5-kg cylinder in October 2013, the government is planning to come out with 2-kg bottles at local kirana stores
- LPG is traditionallyavailable in 14.2-kg cylinders and costs Rs 418. The 5-kg cylinder is available atRs155
Petroleum Minister Dharmendra
Pradhan today launched a scheme, “Sahaj”, enabling online release of new LPG
connections. Portal www.mylpg.in will help customers register for new LPG
connections online as well as make online payments for the same.
The scheme was launched in 12 cities
today, including Chandigarh. The other cities are:Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru,
Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Patna and
Pune. It will be launched pan-India within the next few days.
The scheme is in line with Digital
India Vision announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Pradhan congratulated
the oil marketing companies for implementing the “Sahaj” initiative.
He said: “The vision of Digital
India is to transform the country into a digitally empowered society and
knowledge economy and ensure that government services are available to citizens
electronically.”
Pradhan said the initiatives taken
by the Petroleum Ministry in the past seven months had enhanced coverage of LPG
and extended better services to customers.
He said the ever-growing expansion
of PAHAL, a scheme aimed to improve the subsidy administration of LPG across
the country, has ensured smooth transfer of subsidy on LPG cylinder directly to
the customers’ bank accounts.
He also
thanked 25 lakh people for having given up their LPG subsidy to help BPL
families enjoy freedom from smoke-filled kitchens, following the appeal from the
Prime Minister. Pradhan mentioned about 22 lakh new LPG connections have been
issued for BPL household in the current year January to July 2015.
