The Delhi government is likely to provide free cooking gas cylinders to women from economically weaker sections (EWS) on the festival of Holi in March, official sources said.
The Delhi Cabinet gave its nod to a proposal to this effect during a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta earlier in the day, they said.
Providing free cooking gas cylinders to women from EWS families on Holi and Diwali, as well as subsidised cylinders at Rs 500 each to financially weaker households, was part of the BJP’s manifesto for the Delhi assembly polls.
According to the sources, the cooking gas cylinders will be provided free of cost on Holi and Diwali to women from EWS families having ration cards.
This is expected to incur an expenditure of around Rs 300 crore, the sources said.
While campaigning for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi bypolls in November last year, Chief Minister Gupta assured that her government would fulfil all its promises, including providing a monthly assistance of Rs 2,500 and subsidised gas cylinders to poor women.
The BJP government has already fulfilled some of its poll promises, including the implementation of the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme in Delhi and opening Atal Canteens to provide meals to the needy at a nominal cost of Rs 5.
Delhi recorded its coldest night of the month so far, with the minimum temperature dropping…
Elected to the Delhi Golf Club general committee, Mansher Singh says he wants to build…
A $780 million market built on pavements, where the pleasure of reading meets the price…
Supreme Court advocate Abhishek Pawar alleges women were denied washroom access for seven to eight…
Each day of closure costs shops in Khan Market and Connaught Place between Rs 60,000…
Delhi generates nearly 15,000 tonnes of waste daily, prompting the government to deploy 1,000 mechanical…
