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From 1 October 2026, a domestic LPG consumer must have completed Biometric Aadhaar Authentication to book refills at the regulated Retail Selling Price with subsidy.
As on 19 September 2026, 27.43 crore active domestic consumers — 89.9 per cent — had already completed the process and need do nothing further.
Authentication can be completed at the time of delivery, at the distributor's showroom, or on an Oil Marketing Company mobile app.
Consumers who choose not to authenticate will be supplied LPG at market price without subsidy, in 5 kg or 10 kg cylinders, subject to local availability.
The stated purpose is to stop diversion of subsidised domestic cylinders into commercial and industrial use and to remove duplicate and ineligible connections.
Provide deposit-free LPG connections to women of poor and rural households that were otherwise cooking on firewood, coal and dung cakes.
Key: Launched on 1 May 2016 at Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. Its portal now hosts the self e-KYC tutorials for BAA.
Sell the cylinder at market price and pay the subsidy directly into the consumer's own bank account, cutting out the leakage that came from subsidised pricing at the point of sale.
Key: The DBTL scheme was first taken up in June 2013, paused, and relaunched in modified form as PAHAL on 15 November 2014, reaching all districts by January 2015. BAA is the identity check that tightens this same channel.
Persuade households able to pay the market price to voluntarily surrender their LPG subsidy so that it can be redirected to poorer households.
Key: Launched in March 2015; by April 2016 about one crore consumers had given up the subsidy.
Act as the nodal coordinating body for direct benefit transfer across central schemes.
Key: DBT was launched on 1 January 2013. The Mission was first created in the Planning Commission, moved to the Department of Expenditure in July 2013, and has been placed in the Cabinet Secretariat since 14 September 2015.
The statute that allows a subsidy, benefit or service funded from the Consolidated Fund of India to be made conditional on Aadhaar authentication — the legal footing for making BAA a precondition for the subsidised refill. It was passed by the Lok Sabha on 11 March 2016, with provisions coming into force from 12 July 2016.
Statutory authority constituted under the Aadhaar Act, 2016 with effect from 12 July 2016, functioning under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. It issues Aadhaar numbers and runs the authentication infrastructure that BAA relies on.
Indian Oil Corporation (Indane), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (Bharatgas) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HP Gas) market domestic LPG, run the authentication drive and carry the under-recoveries that the Government partly compensates.
GS Paper 2 > Governance > Welfare Schemes and Service Delivery
General Awareness > Government Schemes and Direct Benefit Transfer
In which year was the "Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana" (PMUY) launched?
Answer: 2016
The gap between an oil marketing company's cost of supplying a product and the controlled price it is allowed to charge — for domestic LPG, over Rs 62,000 crore in accumulated terms as on 31 August 2026.
The regulated price at which a subsidised domestic LPG cylinder is sold, as distinct from the market price charged to an unauthenticated consumer.
Electronic Know Your Customer — identity verification completed digitally, here through Aadhaar biometric or app-based authentication.