New Delhi: As many as 10 crore LPG consumers have joined the ambitious scheme of getting cash subsidy in bank accounts to buy market priced cooking fuel, making it the world's largest direct benefit transfer and helping end black marketing.
Congratulating the beneficiaries and officials for the task achieved in just over two months, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the scheme will "bring an end to black-marketeering and subsidy will reach people more effectively. Its role in nation-building is important".
"(It) gives me great joy to know that over 10 crore citizens have been registered as a part of the PAHAL Yojana. A momentous accomplishment," he tweeted.
He said this makes Pahal Yojana among the largest cash transfer schemes in the world.
The Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme for LPG subsidy, now renamed PaHaL or Pratyaksha Hastaantarit Laabh, covers more than 65 per cent of 15.3 crore LPG consumers in the country and has outpaced similar programmes in other countries such as China, Mexico and Brazil where the maximum beneficiaries touched was no more than 2.2 crore.
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