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Anil Ambani backs Modi's 'Give Up' LPG dole campaign
New Delhi, April 22
After the leadership team
at the Reliance Group opted out of cooking gas subsidy, chairman Anil
Ambani has appealed to all the employees, who can afford it, to also
give up the dole and instead buy the fuel at market prices.
“Our
honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi has undertaken several impactful
steps to promote a more inclusive and equitable quality of life for all
sections of the society," Ambani said a letter to all employees.
"One
such initiative is 'Give it Up', through which government is urging the
economically well-to-do sections of the society to voluntarily give up
use of subsidized LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) and buy at market
prices,†Ambani wrote to the group employees.
"As a mark of
solidarity to this noble initiative, the leadership team of Reliance
Group has already opted out of LPG subsidy. We would like to appeal to
all our colleagues, who can afford to do so, to voluntarily join this
movement and contribute to the cause of nation building."
Ambani
said this was an opportunity for members of the group to make a
contribution towards energy conservation, social equitability and
improved utilisation of scarce natural resources.
Earlier, the
Reliance Group chairman was among the first to join Modi's "Swachh
Bharat" campaign -- a deed for which the prime minister was all praise
and tweeted: "Wonderful effort by Anil Ambani, who cleaned the area
around Churchgate Station in Mumbai along with his friends."
Ambani
was among the nine celebrities, including cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar
and film stars Salman Khan and Priyanka Chopra, who were first invited
by Modi to take the clean India initiative forward.