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With no subsidy, cooking fuel burns a hole in consumers' pocket

The subsidy on LPG was done away with and what remained was some freight subsidy, which comes to Rs 20-30 a cylinder

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Left Front activists during a protest rally against hike in fuel prices, in Birbhum district of West Bengal on Monday Photo: PTI

Twesh Mishra New Delhi
Praveen was in for a surprise when he checked his bank statement in July after six months.

The lockdowns and fear of the pandemic had prevented a visit to his bank branch in rural Uttar Pradesh. He was hoping for Rs 500-700 to be credited as subsidy for the cooking gas (liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG) he had bought over the years.

“I though some Rs 150 or so was being reimbursed for every cylinder I buy. But this time the money has not been credited to my account. I wonder where it has gone,” he said. Officially there is no way

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