Judgment of the Calcutta High Court in the matter of Yeasin Molla & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 12/09/2023. The petitioners are the ration card holders and members of Priority Household under the National Food Security Act, 2015. In the instant writ petition the petitioners have challenged …
A cess or surcharge on income tax and corporate tax may be levied to bail out oil firms reeling under high global prices as the Petroleum Ministry's proposal to raise petrol price by Rs. 10 a litre, diesel by Rs. 5 a litre and that of LPG by Rs. 50 …
Despite political setbacks for the Congress leaving little room for a hike in motor fuel prices, the Petroleum Ministry is toying with the proposal for a "massive hike in petrol' prices to bring them on a par with the market rates. Diesel, LPG and kerosene, however, will be left untouched. …
As the country battles with the fallout of rising crude, it is time for the policy makers to relook at the faulty pricing policy of petroleum products. More often than not, the blame of high crude prices is laid on the taxes - customs duty, sales tax and excise duties …
The prices of diesel and kerosene have registered a sudden increase in Barisal over the couple of days reportedly due to artificial supply shortage created by a section of traders. Local said diesel and kerosene prices had increased in the city by Tk 7.00 to 10.00 per litre. Oil depot …
Rationing oil cannot address the larger issue Any proposal to ration oil in view of rising global crude prices could turn out to be a disaster. Imposing a formal allocation system to streamline supply and demand of petrol and diesel would, instead of resolving the problem, encourage hoarding and black-marketeering …
Noted social crusader Anna Hazare who called on Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday does not seem convinced by the latter's assurance and hence has threatened to go on fast unless his demands are accepted in totality. He has trained his guns on Food & Civil Supplies Minister Sunil Tatkare …
State-run firms together lost Rs 440 cr per day in the fortnight ended March 31. The retail losses that the country's oil marketing companies incur on sale of petrol, diesel, cooking gas and kerosene at subsidised prices have risen by 7.3 per cent to around Rs 440 crore per day …
Even though the government has recently allowed state-owned oil marketing Companies to marginally increase the prices of petrol and diesel, one doesn't need to use rocket science to figure out that the hike is just not enough to help Indian Oil Corp, HPCL and BPCL to tide over their losses. …
Jan Kerosene Pariyojana was launched to revamp the subsidised kerosene distribution measure in the country. Initial impact analysis leads us to believe that the scheme has the potential to realise the intended reforms. Feb 23-29, 2008
WE ALL know the critical role played by oil and gas in the economic development of a country. Fuels such as PDS kerosene and domestic LPG are essential commodities, next only to food, and impact the life of common man in a major way. Therefore, managing the supplies and prices …
The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) conducts socio-economic surveys covering various subjects on regular basis. Subjects are selected keeping in view their importance. As part of the NSS 61st round during the period July 2004 - June 2005, the Household Consumer Expenditure survey was conducted on large sample basis and …
With the declared objective of moving towards market determined prices for petroleum products, Government announced the dismantling of the Administered Pricing Mechanism (APM) effective 1.4.2002. However, it was decided to continue to subsidize PDS kerosene and domestic LPG on the ground that these were fuels of mass consumption largely consumed …
When Faridabad resident Rajendra Dhankar's eight-month-old Santro began to belch white smoke like a run-down truck, he rushed to the vehicle's manufacturer, Hyundai. What had caused the engine to so wheeze was heavily adulterated fuel. The company replaced the piston and the ring. Dhankar's car was as good as new …
A wide variety of low priced fuels and solvents in the market are an immediate enticement to greed. High taxes on petrol make it vulnerable to adulteration with cheap solvents and naphtha. Diesel is easily mixed with subsidised kerosene and cheaper LDO. Says Rita Pandey, Fellow, National Institute of Public …
Towards the end of 2001, as part of an ongoing public interest litigation on air pollution in Delhi, the apex court took notice of the ugly business of adulteration. It has repeatedly pointed out the merit of the CNG programme in culling this menace. But the Union of India, in …
The use of kerosene for lighting and biomass for cooking is predominant throughout rural India. And since provision of grid electricity to rural India is still a far cry, there is an urgent need to develop alternative sources of liquid fuels for lighting and cooking. Studies at the National Agricultural …
Majority of rural households in India use only kerosene for lighting. Most of the lamps are hurricane-type, which produce very poor light intensity of about 60
Indoor air pollution is potentially a very serious environmental and public health problem in India. In poor communities, with the continuing trend in biofuel combustion coupled with deteriorating housing conditions, the problem will remain for some time to come. While to some extent the problem has been studied in rural …
In the context of present-day India, liquefied petroleum gas (lpg) is by far the most effective and least polluting of all the commonly-used cooking fuels. Although electricity has been proven better, it continues to have a limited presence in Indian households. The traditional curve in upward mobility, therefore, is from …
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has notified the emission standards for small size/portable gensets of 19 kilowatt, which are largely operated by spark ignition engines run on petrol and kerosene. The first phase of these standards will come into effect from June 1, 2000 in Delhi. The second phase …
