The government has devised an innovative strategy to cut cooking gas subsidy without igniting protests. Well-off people can contribute to fiscal prudence by opting out of the subsidy on a website, which will in effect embarrass the rich who want to hang on to sops. The scheme will soon be launched nationwide, government officials said. The oil ministry plans to launch a portal that would be called mylpg. in, which any citizen could access and opt out of cooking gas subsidy without cumbersome paper-work, officials said.Many rich and affluent bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and citizens do not want LPG subsidy. But they do not make any effort in this direction because an exit from the subsidy scheme is complicated and time-consuming. The portal will solve this issue, an official said, requesting anonymity. The portal will also have an interesting feature — the Scroll of Honour — where names of consumers voluntarily opting out of LPG subsidy would appear. Non-appearance of names of rich and affluent consumers would bring disrepute to such people because the media would highlight them, the official added.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 03:23:50 +0000