Non Credit of LPG Subsidy Amounts in Bank Accounts of Consumers – Clarification

Upon figuring out the matter, it was found that the complaints were mainly made by the Airtel customers who have opened their account in Airtel payment bank.

Written by: India.com News Desk Edited by: India.com News Desk

Published: October 27, 2017, 6:04 PM IST

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New Delhi, Oct 27: Many consumers of Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) are complaining about non-credit of the LPG subsidy amounts into their bank accounts during the past few weeks. This was also noticed by Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) and the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas.

Upon figuring out the matter, it was found that the complaints were mainly made by the Airtel customers who have opened their account in Airtel payment bank.  Airtel is a telecom service provider which has also ventured into the Payment bank services in recent months.

It is clarified that the LPG subsidy of these Airtel costumers has already been credited to their newly opened Airtel payment bank account seeded with Aadhaar.It may be noted that as per subsidy transfer protocol, the LPG subsidy is transferred to the (latest) bank account of the beneficiary seeded with their Aadhaar .

To redress the inconvenience caused to LPG consumers, MoPNG and OMCs have already taken up the matter with the concerned authorities in Department of Financial Services (Ministry of Finance), National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and Airtel.