Supply of Subsidised LPG Cylinders
The Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan informed the Lok Sabha in a written reply today that there is no proposal under consideration of the Government to reduce the current cap of 12 subsidized cylinders per domestic LPG connection per year. Customers are provided with simpler modes of refill booking by Web/ SMS/ IVRS facility through which they can get tracking information of their booked refill at various stages, like booking confirmation, cash memo generation and delivery confirmation by SMS / e-mail. There is also a system in place of star rating of distributors based on the time taken to supply cylinder to consumer. This is also available in public domain in mylpg.in.
Further, for monitoring the supplies to the distributors, SMS indenting system has been introduced through which the LPG distributors can place their indents at the respective bottling plants. Supplies to the distributors are made as per their indents and the same is monitored on daily basis.
OMCs have reported that there is no restriction on refill booking by a customer. A Domestic LPG customer can book a refill any time provided no other refill booking is pending to be delivered to that consumer.
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