New Delhi, January 30 (IANS): The government Thursday decided to raise the annual cap on subsidised LPG cylinders to 12 from the existing nine. Announcing the decision in this regard taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) at a meeting here, Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily told media persons that “in addition to the nine subsidised cylinders given to consumers in a year, there will be one cylinder given in February and one more in March”. “From the first of April 2014, 12 cylinders will be given per year, that is, one cylinder per month.”
