Fuel subsidies: A sop that does not help

With the Aadhaar-based direct cash transfer scheme facing so many glitches in implementation, any hopes that the country’s energy sector can soon dismount the subsidy tiger it has been riding so dangerously have receded into the background. Had the Aadhaar scheme worked satisfactorily, the next logical step would have been to extend it to leaky petroleum subsidies in order to limit them only to those who need and deserve to be subsidised.

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