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Incentives for Piped Cooking Gas at Home
The Centre now pays city gas companies in cheap domestic gas for every extra household they connect to a piped supply: 200 standard cubic metres of administered-price gas per incremental billed connection, which should cut the payback on that connection from about ten years to roughly three.
Last updated 17 September 20265 min read
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Opened a card on the Centre's new incentive for piped cooking gas. From 1 September 2026 a city gas firm earns 200 standard cubic metres of cheap domestic APM gas for every extra billed household connection, which is expected to cut the payback on a connection from about ten years to roughly three. India had 1.74 crore piped-gas homes across 309 authorised Geographical Areas when the scheme was announced on 18 August 2026.
- PNG
- piped natural gas
- City Gas Distribution
- PNGRB
- APM gas
- National PNG Drive 2.0
- clean cooking fuel
- Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
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