Government offices, charitable trusts and other institutions that came under the “exempted category” and enjoyed free supply of LPG, will no longer be able to enjoy subsidy.
For each LPG cylinder, they will be required to pay a sum of `1,211 against the `417 that they were paying till now.
The media had recently reportedly that in Uttar Pradesh, the Lucknow police alone consumes about 1,800 gas cylinders every month while director, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences at Lucknow, has a dozen LPG connections listed against his name and has taken 3,138 refills on these connections in the last four months.
Similarly, the Lucknow Model Jail too had ordered for more than 1,000 cylinders against the two connections it has in its name pushing the usage to 33 cylinders per day. The chief minister officer is shown to have consumed 34 LPG cylinders during past four months bringing the usage per month to eight cylinders.
Talking to reporters here, Mr B.S. Canth, general manager, Indian Oil Corporation and state coordinator, said that henceforth all government agencies and other institutions that enjoyed the exempted privilege, will not be provided subsidised LPG refills.
He said that an exercise was on to identify more than one connection in different names at one address and two connections with same name at one address.
He said that in case where more than one family lived at one address, the consumers would be required to fill the Know Your Customer (KYC) form that will require all details of the family, their profession, business, bank account etc. in order to ensure that they lived as separate units in one house.
He said a software was being developed that would identify such customers and block their supplies if they did not fill the KYC form.
Mr Canth said that the delay in obtaining new connections was mainly due to the verification process of the KYC form. In an interesting observation, Mr Canth said that the demand for LPG had actually reduced after the cap on six cylinders per year. “It seems people are already trying to restrict the LPG use and are checking wasteful use,” he said.