The NGO feeds 15-20 children daily and needs around 60 LPG cylinders annually to cook the meals.
The Centre’s decision to cap the number of subsidised LPG cylinders to just six annually has upset NGOs and voluntary organisations, who claim this will have an adverse effect on their finances.
Dilip Moghe, trustee of Samatol Foundation, which helps to rehabilitate runaway children, said the decision would increase their financial burden by around Rs30,000 annually. He sought that NGOs be given a relaxation from these rules.
The NGO feeds 15-20 children daily and needs around 60 LPG cylinders annually to cook the meals. “Imposing this cap will hit us financially,” said Moghe, adding that the organisation ran on donations and that the cap would force them to buy non-subsidised cylinders at market rate.
“It is the government’s responsibility to keep such children in remand homes. But, as it is not doing so, organisations like ours are doing it,” he said. He also questioned if “doing away with the subsidy on cooking gas amounted to reforms”.
The Cap
The Centre has put a cap on the supply of subsidised domestic LPG cylinders to consumers to six a year. But there is no restriction on the number of non-subsidised ones they purchase by over and above this limit
Act, don’t blame us, NCP tells Congress
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson Nawab Malik on Thursday said that the state government should take a decision on increasing the number of subsidised cylinders for households from the present six to nine, and not blame the NCP for not taking a decision.
Speaking to the media, Malik said “An impression was being created that the NCP was opposing the move to increase the cap on subsidised cylinders, but that was not true. The government has to take a decision on providing extra cylinders to the citizens.”
The NCP and the Congress were earlier slugging it out on the issue. It seemed as though the NCP ministers were opposed to granting more cylinders to consumers, while the Congress seemed in favour of the move, as Congress president Sonia Gandhi had asked Congress-ruled states to subsidise the extra cylinders for the benefit of citizens.
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