A 19-year-old girl was killed and three other members of her family were injured in an LPG cylinder explosion at her house in Shivnagar village here today.
Afsana, a student of class XII, was working in the kitchen this afternoon when the incident took place, police said.
Her mother, brother and sister were also injured and admitted to a hospital, police said, adding the body has been sent for post-mortem.
If the DBT had not been implemented, the outgo on the
subsidy would have been higher by Rs 14,818 crore in 2014-15 and Rs 6,443 crore in 2015-16, sources said.
The Rs 21,000 crore subsidy saving figure is not comparable with the actual expenditure on subsidy which includes the subsidy on new genuine connections given during these two years.
Without implementation of PAHAL, subsidy burden would have been higher than the actual expenditure recorded during these years, even with lower petroleum prices.
Sources said the evidence of successful elimination of bogus connections is seen in the phenomenal growth of non- subsidized commercial LPG sales which have registered an increase of 39.3 per cent in the period April 2015 to March 2016.
This is in contrast to the pre-PAHAL experience when commercial sales growth was negligible or declining, they added.
