Govt withdraws monthly price hike on LPG cylinders
The government has withdrawn the monthly price hike of â¹4 on LPG cylinders as the hike was considered contrary to its Ujjwala scheme of providing free cooking gas connections to the poor. The roll-back, implemented in October, was announced on Thursday. LPG has been hiked by â¹76.5 since July 2016 in order to eliminate government subsidies by March 2018.