{"id":39329,"date":"2015-01-03T17:05:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T11:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=39329"},"modified":"2016-05-10T18:41:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T13:11:16","slug":"what-is-pahal-and-how-is-it-going-to-benefit-lpg-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/society\/what-is-pahal-and-how-is-it-going-to-benefit-lpg-users","title":{"rendered":"What is PAHAL and how is it going to benefit LPG users?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PAHAL-Benefit<\/a>The world\u2019s largest cash subsidy under the Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme was re-launched by the Union Government in November 2014 in 54 districts and is extended all over the country with effect from January 1, 2015. The scheme was launched for the consumers of Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG). The modified scheme is referred to as Pratyaksh Hanstantarit Labh or PAHAL DBTL (Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG).<\/p>\n

What is PAHAL DBTL?<\/h2>\n

The PAHAL DBTL ambitious scheme was earlier launched on June 1, 2013 by the previous Government with the objective of giving cash subsidy on cooking gas and it covered 291 districts. The present government has comprehensively examined the PAHAL scheme and after reviewing the problems faced by the consumers, it modified the prior scheme and re-launched it in 54 districts on November 15, 2014 to cover 2.5 crore households. The second phase of this revised scheme started on January 1, 2015 to cover all the districts of the country. Under the previous scheme, it was mandatory to have the Aadhar number for all consumers who want to receive the LPG subsidy. However, this was a big problem for consumers who did not have the Aadhar card, which meant that they could not avail the subsidy.<\/p>\n

How to receive LPG subsidy?<\/h2>\n

However, the new scheme has made available the LPG subsidy to all consumers. Under the modified scheme, the consumers who use LPG can now receive subsidy in his bank account under two options. Such a consumer who joins the scheme will be called Cash Transfer Compliant (CTC) and he can receive subsidy in the bank account.<\/p>\n

Option 1 <\/strong><\/p>\n

With Aadhar: <\/strong>If the consumers have their Aadhar numbers, then they have to get the number linked to the bank account to receive the subsidy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Option 2 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Without Aadhar:<\/strong> If a consumer does not have his Aadhar number, he can get the subsidy by linking his bank account with the LPG connection ID. This can be done in two ways:<\/span><\/p>\n