Ranchi: Jharkhand government’s announcement of providing Rs 25 subsidy on each litre of petrol to ration card holding families was an act of cheap publicity as it will not provide much needed relief to the larger section of the society, BJP’s state president Deepak Prakash said on Friday.
“The government wants to gain cheap publicity by indulging the people in numbers’ game. There are 60 lakh ration card holding families (under the Centre’s NFSA scheme), but the government is failing to provide them with ration. Now, the government wants to create chaos in the state by providing subsidy on petrol to only 20 lakh families (who own motorcycles),” Prakash said in a statement. He added: “If the government is genuinely concerned about providing relief, then it should have slashed the price of diesel.”
On the occasion of the second anniversary of his swearing in, chief minister Hemant Soren announced the subsidy from January 26. His government has since then remained silent on how will the announcement be fructified.
While senior officials have said a dedicated website is being developed where beneficiaries can upload the sreceipt of the petrol they purchased from the pumps to claim the subsidy through direct benefit transfer, the government has claimed that means of implementation are still being worked out.
Talking to TOI, a senior leader of the ruling JMM laid out another way forward. “Beneficiary families will need to purchase petrol at the current rates from petrol pumps and produce the cash memo with their PDS dealers. The dealers will then initiate the DBT into the bank accounts of the beneficiaries which are linked with Aadhaar cards. Benefits will be extended to every bike which belongs to the beneficiary family,” the leader said.
“The government wants to gain cheap publicity by indulging the people in numbers’ game. There are 60 lakh ration card holding families (under the Centre’s NFSA scheme), but the government is failing to provide them with ration. Now, the government wants to create chaos in the state by providing subsidy on petrol to only 20 lakh families (who own motorcycles),” Prakash said in a statement. He added: “If the government is genuinely concerned about providing relief, then it should have slashed the price of diesel.”
On the occasion of the second anniversary of his swearing in, chief minister Hemant Soren announced the subsidy from January 26. His government has since then remained silent on how will the announcement be fructified.
While senior officials have said a dedicated website is being developed where beneficiaries can upload the sreceipt of the petrol they purchased from the pumps to claim the subsidy through direct benefit transfer, the government has claimed that means of implementation are still being worked out.
Talking to TOI, a senior leader of the ruling JMM laid out another way forward. “Beneficiary families will need to purchase petrol at the current rates from petrol pumps and produce the cash memo with their PDS dealers. The dealers will then initiate the DBT into the bank accounts of the beneficiaries which are linked with Aadhaar cards. Benefits will be extended to every bike which belongs to the beneficiary family,” the leader said.
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