STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: The Direct Benefit transfer of LPG (DBTL) scheme Pratyaksh Hanstantrit Labh (Pahal) launched in the 622 districts of the country on Thursday which includes 22 districts in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
“Consumers who wish to join the scheme will have to either link their Aadhaar number into their bank account and their LPG consumer or if they do not possess Aadhaar number, they will have to link their bank account directly with their 17 digit LPG Id” an handout issued by company on Thursday said.
Once a consumer joins the scheme, he will get the cylinders at market price and will receive LPG subsidy directly in his bank account, it said adding that a sum of Rs.568 will be paid in advance to the consumer, in the bank account, who now joins the scheme, as soon as he makes the first booking for a cylinder after joining the scheme to ensures that he has extra money required to pay for the first LPG cylinder at market price.
Camps are being set up at various banks, and LPG distributor’s premises to enable LPG consumers to open bank account and enroll for Aadhaar if they need to do so to join the scheme, it informed.
The State of Jammu and Kashmir has 15.17 lakh LPG consumers, of which 3,47,902 consumers have already become Cash Transfer Compliant (CTC), it said.
