The Cabinet on Thursday approved raising the quota of subsidised LPG to 12 cylinders annually from nine and put on hold linking the Aadhaar platform to the subsidy scheme.

The government had on January 17 said the limit would be raised, minutes after Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's public demand to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at an All India Congress Committee meet.

Announcing the decision taken by the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, oil minister M Veerappa Moily said raising the LPG quota will cost Rs. 5,000 crore in additional subsidy annually.

"In addition to the nine subsidised cylinders, people will get one cylinder each in February and March. Beginning April 1, people will get 12 cylinders per year at the rate of one cylinder per month," oil minister Veerappa Moily said at a press conference after the Cabinet meet.

Moily also said the direct benefit transfer for LPG (DBTL) scheme, where consumers in as many as get 289 districts in 18 states got the subsidy amount in their bank accounts so that they could buy cooking gas at market rate, has been put on hold.

Explaining the reasons behind the move to put on hold a scheme that was dubbed 'game-changer, he said there were complaints about implementation of the scheme and a committee has been formed to look into them.

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