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Ration card is issued by Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation to family residing in Tamil Nadu. It consists of Head of family Photograph with all the family members name, age, sex, No. of LPG connections printed on the backside of the card with full residential address of family.
On 5 July 2015, finding the experience with the DBT scheme in LPG "very encouraging", with a reported savings of ₹ 127 billion (US$1.5 billion) to the public exchequer this year, Jaitley said, "If we can realize the government's JAM—Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, Mobile—vision we can ensure that money goes directly and more quickly into the pockets ...
By 1 January 2014, half of India (289 districts across various states) had been covered by DBT for subsidized LPG. By August 2013, 6.3 million duplicate LPG connections were detected by Aadhaar and were cancelled. The national government saved $1 billion on reduced imports by mid-2013. [24]
The local administration under the department consists of 15 municipal corporations, 121 municipalities and 528 town panchayats. [2] [3] Greater Chennai Corporation, established in 1688, is the second oldest in the world and Tamil Nadu was the first state to establish town panchayats as a new administrative unit.
The surrendered subsidy is being redistributed by the government in order to provide cooking gas connections to poor families in rural households free of cost. [3] Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Delhi and Tamil Nadu are the top five states to give up the subsidy. [4] [5]
The scheme led to an increase in LPG consumption by 56% in 2019 as compared to 2014. [9] The highly popular scheme has benefited over 14.6 million BPL families in Uttar Pradesh, 8.8 million in West Bengal, 8.5 million in Bihar, 7.1 million in Madhya Pradesh, 6.3 million in Rajasthan and 3.24 million in Tamil Nadu. [10] [11]
The first Indane LPG connection was released on 22 October 1965 at Kolkata. Indane serves more than 130 million families through a network of 12,500 distributors. 27% of its customers reside in semi-urban or rural markets and every second LPG cooking gas connection in India is that of Indane. The sales network is backed by 47 Indane area offices.
Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (abbreviated as TNEB) is a power generation and distribution company owned by Government of Tamil Nadu, India. It was created as a regulated monopoly under section 131 of the Electricity Act (2003) as a successor of the erstwhile Tamil Nadu Electricity Board . [ 3 ]