{"id":143974,"date":"2015-01-05T21:34:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T21:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2015\/01\/05\/govt-launches-subsidised-cooking-gas-scheme\/"},"modified":"2015-01-05T21:34:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T21:34:59","slug":"govt-launches-subsidised-cooking-gas-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2015\/01\/05\/govt-launches-subsidised-cooking-gas-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt launches subsidised cooking gas scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/CEXQLBOJOTNNSAQNCRKF.jpg>Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday launched the sale of subsidised five-kg cooking gas cylinders under Free Trade LPG Scheme, benefiting Below Poverty Line (BPL) families and others.<br \/>\nHe also launched a new scheme providing concession of Rs.1, 600 to BPL families on new gas connections in the country. The move is aimed to make cooking gas easily available to consumers.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile the subsidised five-kg LPG cylinder will be available only at regular LPG distributor, market-priced cooking gas cylinders can be bought without prior booking and minimal paper work at petrol pumps, gas agencies and some grocery stores,\u201d he said after launching the scheme.<br \/>\nThe consumers will avail the benefits till the end of March 2015, the minister said.<br \/>\nHe said the government is also considering providing one-kg, two-kg and three-kg gas cylinders to the poor people. The minister stressed on bringing the gas penetration in Odisha at par with national level.<br \/>\nWhile Odisha has around one crore households, the gas connections number only 25 lakh, far below the national average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday launched the sale of subsidised five-kg cooking gas cylinders under Free Trade LPG Scheme, benefiting Below Poverty Line (BPL) families and others. He also launched a new scheme providing concession of Rs.1, 600 to BPL families on new gas connections in the country. The move is aimed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}