With the cap on subsidised LPG cylinder set to put an additional burden of over Rs 600 crore in executing the mid-day meal scheme, the humar resource development minister Kapil Sibal has asked the petroleum ministry to continue providing cooking gas at subsidised rates for the programme this fiscal. The ministry has projected that with the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders, the expenditure on LPG would jump from Rs 653 crore to Rs 1306 crore annually, which would be 11.6 per cent of the total allocation for the mid-day meal programme.