Update: cooking Gas shortage
8:37 AM
The government announced on Friday that it would be making another bid to implement a card system for the distribution of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) after the first two attempts ended in fiasco. The planned card system would support the scheme to use colour-coded cylinders for domestic and industrial users. Under this system, household buyers would get LPG in red cylinders at a subsidized rate while industrial users would get it in blue cylinders which would be sold at the full price. The card system was expected to make the LPG distribution channel transparent and hassle-free, besides curbing rampant black marketeering and hoarding. However, the card system was a non-starter as bottlers refused to cooperate complaining about the increased cost of using two types of cylinders.
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