New Delhi: The Central Government, through an summons to the Gas Control Order, has clarified that a single household is permitted to hold only one LPG connection. Possessing increasingly than one LPG connection is now strictly prohibited. India's oil marketing companies—HPCL, Indian Oil and Bharat Petroleum—have issued a joint public notice well-flavored to consumers to immediately surrender any spare LPG connections they may hold. Strict whoopee regarding this rule will be enforced starting June 1.
What Are The Key Rules?
For a single family unit (comprising a husband, wife, married children, and dependent parents) sharing a worldwide kitchen, only one LPG connection shall be considered valid.
Gas supply may be suspended for households found to possess spare connections. Supply will be restored only without all such spare connections have been surrendered.
If, without surrendering the spare connections, only one connection remains, it may be converted into a Double Bottle Connection (DBC). Consumers who have obtained a PNG (Piped Natural Gas) connection are required to immediately surrender their existing LPG connection.
What is New Exemption for PNG Users?
The LPG connection must be surrendered within 30 days of obtaining a PNG connection.
Alternatively, consumers may opt to obtain a 'Transfer Voucher,' which would indulge them to reactivate an LPG connection in the future, should they relocate to an zone where PNG services are unavailable.
Why was this visualization taken?
- To make new LPG connections misogynist to needy families.
- To prorogue the misuse and woebegone marketing of subsidized LPG cylinders.
- To promote the use of wipe fuels, such as PNG.
- All three oil marketing companies have requested consumers to comply with these regulations and to contact their respective distributors to well-constructed the process of surrendering any spare connections. This process can moreover be completed online.
