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Despite sharp fall in international crude oil prices, subsidy on LPG cylinders falls to zero

by TLN Team May 30, 2020June 2, 2020
written by TLN Team May 30, 2020June 2, 2020
Despite sharp fall in international crude oil prices, subsidy on LPG cylinders falls to zero

The union government’s decision to hike the price of subsidised cylinder over the past several months, including the recent fall in non-subsidised LPG price, has led to zero subsidy, for the first time since at least 2011, the subsidy on the 14.2 kg domestic LPG cylinder has dropped to ‘zero’ in May.

 

According to a report, oil firms are likely to end up making an over-recovery of Rs 120 on each cylinder in May.

The Centre’s introduction of the Direct Benefit Transfer scheme in January 2015, which made consumers pay full (market) price for non-subsidised cylinders LPG cylinders, while the government reimburses a subsidy amount directly into their bank accounts, promised to usher in a new, transparent pricing regime.

In the previous system, oil marketing companies would sell cylinders below cost to consumers, and then wait for the government to reimburse them for the losses (also called under-recoveries in industry parlance).

In theory, under the DBT regime, there would no more need for under-recoveries as the price of the non-subsidised cylinder could be priced at above market rates.

But the rollout could not be fully effective as the government froze the price of non-subsidised cylinders between October 2017 and July 2019, as it focused on promoting the PM Ujjwala Yojana, which provided Rs 1,600 cash assistance to incentivise the poor to get new LPG gas connections.This meant that even the full price of the LPG cylinders was in fact still below cost.OMCs started rapidly hiking the price of non-subsidised cylinder since July 2019.

The market price of LPG cylinders is determined based on import-parity price of Saudi LPG price (with a one-month lag).The price build-up also includes several cost elements which are generally fixed (and changed only periodically). These include bottling charges, cylinder costs, inland freight, dealer commission, return on investment and GST etc. As per the change in the prices, the rate of the LPG cylinder in April was Rs.799.50. On 30th April, the rate of the cylinder was lowered by Rs.199.50.However, and the customers get the subsidy only if rate is more than the base rate.

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