1.15 Cr consumers have given up LPG subsidy

Around 1.15 crore LPG consumers, or roughly 3.5 per cent of the total consumers of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), have given up their subsidy as part of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas’s (MoPNG) Give It Up campaign.

As of December 2024, State-controlled oil marketing companies (OMCs) cumulatively had 32.89 crore active domestic LPG customers, served through 25,542 distributors.

“As on February 1, 2025, about 1.15 crore consumers have voluntarily given up their subsidies under the Give it up campaign,” said Minister of State for MoPNG Suresh Gopi in a written response to a query in Rajya Sabha..

Since 2016, the government is running the nationwide campaign to encourage domestic LPG consumers, who can afford to pay the non-subsidised price, to give up their subsidy.

The retail selling price of a 14.2 Kg domestic LPG cylinder is currently ₹803 in Delhi. After a targeted subsidy of ₹300 per cylinder to ‘Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana’ (PMUY) consumers,

Government is providing 14.2 Kg LPG cylinders at an effective price of ₹503 per cylinder (in Delhi). This is available to more than 10.33 crore Ujjwala beneficiaries, across the country.

Additional subsidy

A few State governments are providing some additional subsidy on LPG refills and bear the additional cost from their respective budgets.

India imports about 60 per cent of the domestic LPG consumed. Price of LPG in the country is linked to its price in the international market.

While the average Saudi CP (international benchmark for LPG pricing) rose by 63 per cent (from $385 per tonne in July 2023 to $629 in February 2025), the effective price for PMUY consumers for domestic LPG was reduced by 44 per cent (from ₹903 in August 2023 to ₹503 in February 2025).

India’s LPG imports rose 10.30 per cent y-o-y to 1.82 million tonnes (mt) in January 2025. However, it fell by 2.2 per cent on a monthly basis, as per the Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell (PAC). During April-January in FY25, the in-bound cargoes rose by 15.1 per cent y-o-y to 17.47 mt on a provisional basis.