lPG consumers doses not need to submit forms concerning Direct Benefit Transfer for lPG (DBTl) Scheme if they have already provided all the information related to Aadhar Card number and bank account number on the website-www.rass.uiadai.gov.in, said Dhirendra Kumar, manager (lPG-sales), Indian Oil Corporation limited Dehradun Area office on Tuesday. One can dial toll free number -1800-233-555 and officials who have been deputed there by the company would redress their problems related to this scheme and others, he added.
Moreover, the large number of lPG consumers was witnessed standing in queue at various agencies for submitting scheme forms to derive benefit under DBTl scheme. The consumers were seen asking the agency officials about DBTl schemes and how to fill the form and where to submit it. Some of them expressed outrage over agency officials not informing them correctly and rather confusing them.
Some visitors at Sahkarita Gas Agency said that agency officials are not providing correct information causing inconvenience to them. They had already provided all the information related to Aadhar Card number and bank account number on the said website, but they are told to submit DBTl form at the agency so that they could keep such records in their office.
Reacting to questions that customers are being asked by agency official to submit DBT scheme form despite their having provided all the information related to Aadhar Card number and bank account number on the said website, Kumar said that the connection holders have been given options either to submit the DBT form to their agency or to submit it through website.
DBTl scheme forms are being provided free of cost to the gas connection holders at the gas agency outlets. Kumar further said that the lPG connection holders so far left out were asked to provide their bank accounts and mobile phone numbers to their respective gas agencies so that the cash subsidy on cooking gas could be directly transferred under DBTl scheme in the bank accounts of the beneficiaries after January 1, 2015.
lPG consumers would receive subsidy in their bank accounts with the Aadhar numbers being linked to their bank accounts. However, the consumers who do not have Aadhar numbers can receive subsidy directly to their bank a/cs without the use of Aadhar number.
Kumar said that there would be a ‘grace period’ of three months, that is, from January 1, 2015to March 31, during which the consumers who have not yet joined the scheme will continue to get cylinders at subsidised rates.