There’s hullabaloo on the street. Thanks to Shoba karandlaje and her war against the cooking gas mafia. Now,India spends a whooping 12000 crores on subsidizing your cooking gas. However, thanks to the mafia, at least 40% of this reaches the black market and is used for purposes other than the intended “cooking at home”. It is siphoned of to hotels, to heat water and to fuel cars.
So who is the gas Mafia? Mafia is our friendly neighborhood armchair intellectual, who can talk hours on how our country is being looted by the politicians, while he uses subsidized cooking gas to fuel his car.Mafia is you and me who don’t mind shelling 3-4 thousand for a single meal in a restaurant but crib, crib and crib some more on the government proposal to do away with the subsidy to cooking gas.
Think about it. An average family will require, 10-12 gas cylinders per year. An extra burden of 400x 12 is 4800 per year. If the govt gives subsidy for 4 cylinders as is being proposed and you are willing to take alms, the extra burden further comes down to 3200/year or roughly 270 Rs/ month. That is not a big amount to most of us cribber’s. But we are up in arms, anyway.
We crib whenever govt rises the price of petrol too. Stop cribbing and start using the public transport. Better still, GO, TAKE A HIKE…..
