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A 14.2 kg cooking gas refill costs Rs 903 in Delhi. For Ujjwala customers, the effective price is Rs 702, which will now drop to Rs 602. There are about 31 crore cooking gas customers in the country, including 9.6 crore Ujjwala beneficiaries. Non-Ujjwala customers do not get subsidy.
The Cabinet has also approved an additional subsidy of Rs 200 under the Ujjwala scheme, following which, beneficiaries will now have to pay Rs 400 less in total.
In a major relief to common people, particularly housewives on the eve of the festival of Raksha Bandhan, the Centre on Tuesday announced a Rs 200 per cylinder cut in prices of domestic cooking gas. Among other measures, the Union Cabinet adopted a resolution hailing the