Tuesday, May 22, 2012

LPG cylinders to be issued 15 days after last cylinder issued

Aizawl, May 23 : Mizoram government today decided that even those who were issued cooking gas cylinder from the emergency quota from the government should produce LPG consumer card and would be issued only after 15 days from the last time the consumer lifted his LPG cylinder. An official statement said that the meeting chaired by state chief minister Lal Thanhawla and attended by Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs minister H. Rohluna and senior officials deliberated on how to ease the acute shortage of LPG in Aizawl city since the past few months. The meeting also decided that surprise checks should be conducted on hotels and restaurant to ensure that only commercial gas cylinders are used in the business houses and also on LPG agents and distributors, the statement said. "Manuals and guidelines should be strictly followed in distribution of cooking gas and efforts should be made to do away with black marketing in gas cylinders," the meeting decided.