Over 30,000 Piped Natural Gas (PNG) consumers have surrendered their Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) connections, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) has said.
Since March, more than 4.24 lakh PNG connections have been gasified and over 4.66 lakh customers have registered for new connections, the MoPNG added.
This comes as the West Asia situation remains fragile amid a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran.
The ministry said that more than 52.3 lakh domestic LPG cylinders were delivered with no dry-outs have been reported at LPG distributorships.
Officials also informed that enforcement actions continue across the country to curb hoarding and black marketing of LPG. On April 11, more than 2,700 raids were conducted across the country. PSU oil marketing companies have strengthened and continued surprise inspections and imposed penalties on 219 LPG distributorships and suspended 56 distributorships till now.
