Petrol subsidy a publicity stunt, claims BJP state president Ranchi News – Times of India

Ranchi: The Jharkhand government’s announcement of giving a subsidy of Rs 25 per liter of petrol to ration card holder families was an act of cheap publicity as it would not provide much needed relief to a large section of the society, said BJP state president Deepak. Light Said on Friday.
“The government wants to get cheap publicity by involving people in the numbers game. There are 60 lakh ration card holder families (under the center) National Food Security Act scheme), but the government has failed to provide them ration. Now, the government wants to create chaos in the state by giving subsidy on petrol to only 20 lakh families (who have motorcycles),” Prakash said in a statement. He added: “If the government is really concerned about giving relief, it should have reduced the price of diesel.”
Chief Minister on the occasion of the second anniversary of his swearing-in Hemant Soren Subsidy announced from 26 January. His government has since remained silent on how the announcement will be executed.
While senior officials have said that a dedicated website is being developed where beneficiaries can upload the receipt of petrol purchased from pumps to claim subsidy through direct benefit transfer, the government has claimed that the means of implementation But still work is being done.
Speaking to TOI, a senior leader of the ruling JMM took another path. “The beneficiary households will have to buy petrol from petrol pumps at the prevailing rates and produce cash memos with them. public distribution system Dealers will then initiate DBT in the bank accounts of the Aadhar card linked beneficiaries. The benefit will be given to every bike of the beneficiary family,” the leader said.

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