“Where is the achhe din. Now it’s all bure din. Even at this age I have to ride the bicycle to protest price rise. The Centre should immediately reduce the tax on petroleum products. I don’t remember how many times petrol and diesel prices have gone up this year,” said Rourtray.
Panigrahi told
The Telegraph, “Today morning we decided to come to the Assembly on bicycles. We could not immediately contact all the MLAs. Our legislature party leader Narasingh Mishra did not join us because of health issues. Both the state and the Centre should reduce their taxes from the petroleum products.”
Oil PSUs spent ₹34,000 crore on BS-VI upgrade: Pradhan
February 16, 2021
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1 crore more LPG connections under PMUY will help achieve universal coverage of clean cooking fuel: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Public sector companies in the oil industry have invested ₹34,000 crore to upgrade plants for producing BS-VI fuel, said Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan said on Tuesday.
India leapfrogged from BS-IV to BS-VI emission standards in April last year. The Central government took the decision in January 2016, when Pradhan had said that oil PSUs would invest about ₹28,750 crore for switching over to BS-VI vehicular fuels.
The country will chart its own strategy and pathway for green energy transition as it creates a global model of energy justice by balancing accessibility and affordability, Pradhan said at the joint conferences of the 11th World PetroCoal Congress and World Future Fuel Summit.
Speaking in support of the budget presented in Parliament, Rajasthan MP Diya Kumari said that the budget has paid special attention to basic issues like education, various schemes, skill development, health and sanitation. This will further .
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NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) The number of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) connections in India rose to nearly 288 million, thus catering to the needs of nearly 99.5 percent of the total population, federal minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan informed the parliament on Wednesday.
In a written reply to a question raised in the parliament, the minister said that implementation of the federal government s ambitious scheme - Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) (Prime Minister Clean Energy Scheme) resulted in an increase in national LPG coverage from 61.9 percent as on April 1, 2016, to 99.5 percent as of Jan. 1, 2021.