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 …
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said the Empowered Group of Ministers headed by him would decide on the price hike of diesel, LPG and kerosene when it meets next week.
EGoM to consider oilmin plan on May 11 Fuel prices will rise next week as the government is planning to increase the state-set price of diesel by up to 5 per litre while oil companies are preparing to raise petrol rates by a similar amount after assembly polls end on …
Delhi will soon get rid of problems related to scarcity and adulteration in kerosene oil being used by lakhs of poor families for cooking every day as new scheme is coming up replacing kerosene stoves. The Delhi government, along with the union government, has been giving final touches to a …
New Delhi: PM Manmohan Singh disputed the estimates of huge loss from the spectrum swindle by citing the subsidies given to the poor on food and kerosene in his interaction with the media on Wednesday. Responding to a question on whether he agreed with telecom minister Kapil Sibal that there …
NewDelhi:Diversion of subsidised fuels is one of the major threats to the health of the oil sector, a document prepared by the oil ministry on strategy for the next five years says. The document lists price volatility in commodity markets, lax regulation of commodity exchanges and paper-trading in oil as …
The government plans to provide kerosene, cooking gas and fertiliser subsidy to the poor by direct cash transfers on a pilot basis before the end of the current calendar year, 2011. For the current year, according to Budget documents, petroleum and fertiliser subsidies add up to Rs 53,000 crore. The …
New Delhi: A thriving black market in kerosene, estimated at Rs 10,000 crore a year, killed additional collector Yeshwant Sonawane. A litre of kerosene sold at ration shops is often costlier than a bottle of packaged water. Most of this
Fire services rushed to the Comba area of the Commercial capital following oil spill on the main road on Monday noon. Inquires later revealed that the oil spill occurred due to leakage to kerosene barrels stored outside a departmental store. Fire officer Gill Souza expressed his surprise over the storage …
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai June 29, 2010, 1:11 IST After the hike of Rs 3 per litre in kerosene against the rise of Rs 16-17 per litre recommended by the Kirit Parikh-led expert group, focus has now shifted to the large-scale adulteration and black-marketing of the fuel. Petroleum and Natural …
To ensure energy security, we need a time-bound action plan to substitute petrol and diesel with gas and this will have a salutary effect on global crude prices, says R S Pandey SHOULD the prices of petrol and diesel be freed? This is a tough call for decision makers, though …
AN empowered group of ministers chaired by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is scheduled to meet on June 7 to take policy decisions on pricing of petrol, diesel, kerosene and cooking gas.
This Report of the Standing Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas deals with the action taken by the Government on the Recommendations contained in the Twenty-Fifth Report (Fourteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas (2008-2009) on "Marketing, Supply, Distribution, Dealerships and Pricing of Kerosene and …
Nepal has a high incidence of tuberculosis. Nepal is also among the South Asian countries where a lot of biomass is burnt for fuel. The two facts provided a group with reasons to link indoor air pollution from fuels with tuberculosis—something that six studies have so far have tried to …
The latest issues of both the World Energy Outlook (WEO) and the World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) brought to the fore the importance and urgency of a low carbon revolution in order to align climate and development imperative and digress from the alarming fossil-fuel dependent path. Although both the …
The Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) has commissioned case studies on fossil-fuel subsidy reform in Brazil, France, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Poland and Senegal. This report is prepared under IISD: Bali to Copenhagen project, author examines India's attempts to reform its long-standing subsidy on residential kerosene. The report explains the roots of …
