marketers of domestic cooking gas, the department of Food & Civil Supplies yesterday seized a large consignment of LPG cylinders from several restaurants and hotels of the Capital Complex.
Altogether, three trucks of LPG cylinders were recovered during a raid conducted by three teams of officials and police personnel led by district food & civil supplies officer (DFCSO) Amit Bengia, official sources said here today.
The DFCSO said that present LPG crisis was due to insufficient feeding of LPG bullet tankers from Numaligarh and Lakhwa in Assam to IOC bottling plant located at Kimin, shortage of packed LPG trucks and difficulty faced in setting up of bigger capacity LPG plant. The other reason, he said, was illegal use of domestic LPG cylinders in commercial activities.
He informed that from now on, such raids would be conducted at regular intervals and no black marketeers would be spared.