Lok Sabha Question No. 957 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-07-26
Subject: Audit of Usage of LPG
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: L.S. Tejasvi Surya

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 957 TO BE ANSWERED ON  26 th  JULY, 2021

## Audit of Usage of LPG

957. SHRI L.S. TEJASVI SURYA:

पेोलयम एवं ाक ृतक गैस मंी Will the Minister of PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government has conducted or plans to conduct a consumer-side audit of usage of LPG across States and if so, the details thereof;

(b) whether the Government intends to come up with policy changes in Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) to increase the usage of LPG and if so, the details thereof along with the number of citizens who are availing benefit under PMUY and the total amount of subsidy being given to the them, State-wise; and

(c) the number of citizens State-wise who have surrendered the gas connections from 2014 till  date  along  with  the  State-wise  amount of  subsidy  saved by  the  Government during the said period and the details of the LPG connections provided before 2014?

## ANSWER

## पेोलयम एवं ाक ृतक गैस मंालय म राय मंी ( ी रामेवर तेल ) MINISTER OF STATE IN MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS (SHRI RAMESWAR TELI)

(a)  Performance  audit  of  Pradhan  Mantri  Ujjwala  Yojana(PMUY)  was  conducted  by Comptroller  and  Auditor  General  of  India(CAG)  with  a  view  to  ascertaining  the implementation effectiveness of PMUY. The CAG team covered the PMUY connections released from May 2016 to December 2018 and refill transactions upto March 2018.

(b)  Oil  Marketing  Companies have taken several initiatives to provide affordable LPG refills  to  the  PMUY  beneficiaries  which  include  deferring  of  recovery  of  loan  from subsidy from the PMUY beneficiaries to encourage refill consumption for six refills or a period of one year whichever is earlier, swap facility to avail small package of 5 kg refill against 14.2 kg refill as per their requirement etc.

Currently, there are 8 crore PMUY beneficiaries across the country. State/UT -wise details are at Annexure .  The prices of petroleum products including LPG in the country are linked to the prices of respective products in the international market.

(c)    As  on  31.03.2021, 1.08 crore LPG consumers have given up their subsidy under 'GiveItUp' campaign across the country. As per available data, the estimated savings due to blocked/non-subsidised domestic/GiveItUp consumers from 2014-15 to 2020-21 is  Rs.  72,586  crore.    As  on  31.03.2014,  there  were  14.52  crore  domestic  LPG consumers in the country, which have  increased to 29.11 crore as on 01.07.2021.

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Annexure referred to part (b) of Unstarred Lok Sabha Parliament Question No. 957 to be answered on 26.07.2021 asked by Shri L.S. Tejasvi Surya  regarding ' Audit of Usage of LPG".

| State/UT                               | LPG connections released under PMUY as on 30.06.2021   |
|----------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands            | 12,602                                                 |
| Andhra Pradesh                         | 3,91,622                                               |
| Arunachal Pradesh                      | 44,635                                                 |
| Assam                                  | 34,74,269                                              |
| Bihar                                  | 85,23,347                                              |
| Chandigarh                             | 87                                                     |
| Chhattisgarh                           | 29,88,243                                              |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli & Daman and Diu | 15,166                                                 |
| Delhi                                  | 76,138                                                 |
| Goa                                    | 1,081                                                  |
| Gujarat                                | 28,98,837                                              |
| Haryana                                | 7,25,690                                               |
| Himachal Pradesh                       | 1,36,349                                               |
| Jammu and Kashmir                      | 12,30,044                                              |
| Jharkhand                              | 32,58,264                                              |
| Karnataka                              | 31,43,115                                              |
| Kerala                                 | 2,56,059                                               |
| Ladakh                                 | 11,072                                                 |
| Lakshadweep                            | 292                                                    |
| Madhya Pradesh                         | 71,43,500                                              |
| Maharashtra                            | 44,18,563                                              |
| Manipur                                | 1,56,398                                               |
| Meghalaya                              | 1,50,526                                               |
| Mizoram                                | 28,122                                                 |
| Nagaland                               | 54,096                                                 |
| Odisha                                 | 47,36,613                                              |
| Puducherry                             | 13,568                                                 |
| Punjab                                 | 12,19,518                                              |
| Rajasthan                              | 63,58,427                                              |
| Sikkim                                 | 8,752                                                  |
| Tamil Nadu                             | 32,37,731                                              |
| Telangana                              | 10,71,348                                              |
| Tripura                                | 2,71,530                                               |
| Uttar Pradesh                          | 147,28,593                                             |
| Uttarakhand                            | 4,03,184                                               |
| West Bengal                            | 88,47,509                                              |