Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) have reported that there is no permanent shortage of LPG supply in the Country and they are meeting the genuine demand of the customers registered with their distributors and endeavour to supply refills normally within seven working days from the date of booking.
However, sporadic instances of generation of backlog occur in some markets, due to reasons beyond control like strikes/ bandhs/ agitations by contract labours/ transporters/ trade unions etc.
“If backlog gets generated due to uncontrollable/ unavoidable reasons, the same is met by augmenting supplies to the affected markets by operating the bottling plants on Sundays/ holidays,” she added.
The Minister also emphasised the possibility of black-marketing of subsidized domestic LPG cylinders by some unscrupulous elements cannot be ruled out due to the wide gap between the retail price of LPG for domestic use and the market price for commercial LPG.
In all established cases of black-marketing, action has been taken against the erring distributors as per provisions of Marketing Discipline Guidelines (MDG).
