Petroleum ministry may not contest the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report if it projects that the savings to the government was less than Rs 2,000 crore from its flagship Direct Benefit Transfer or ‘give up’ subsidy campaign targeted at LPG consumers.
The ministry believes that there may be variations in the method of counting. The ministry’s calculation is based on the assumption that blocking 3.5 crore fake connections has earned the government
Rs 21,000 crore in two financial years, beginning 2015.
The government is expected to table the CAG report on the LPG subsidy in Parliament in the ongoing session. “We have conveyed our point of view to the CAG. It has a different kind of calculation, we may not dispute that,” a senior official told DH. According to a media report, the CAG has indicated that less than Rs 2,000 crore has accrued to the government on account of the ‘give up’ subsidy campaign for LPG consumers and that about Rs 20,000 crore savings has come from cheap global oil prices.
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