Distributors of three oil marketing companies are now reaching out to lPG customers to give them direct benefit (Central Government subsidy on lPG) under the DBTl-PAHAl (Pratyaksh Hastaantarit laabh) scheme of the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Indane distributors on Sunday organised form collection camps at different places in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Angul, Jagatsinghpur, Boudh and Dhenakal. A good number of customers filled up forms to get subsidy through their bank accounts.
“Under the scheme, which will be made operational from January 1, each customer would each get Rs 568 credited in his or her bank account. The customers will purchase gas cylinders at market price and the subsidy amount will be credited to their accounts within two days,” said an Indane official.
The official informed that the Indane has around 9 lakh customers and about a big number of them have already been reached by distributors. “These camps are organised to facilitate customers who stay at far off places from distributorship,” the official informed.
He further informed that mike announcements are being made to make people about the place of camps. At some places photocopy facility are also provided for convenience of customers.