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LPG dealers to go on strike from Dec 19
STRINGENT ACTION by the district administration to check black marketing of cooking gas has brought them at loggerheads with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) dealers. Sounding an alarm, LPG Dealers? Association office bearers said that gas agency owners would observe three-day strike from December 19 if the cases lodged against them were not withdrawn.
STRINGENT ACTION by the district administration to check black marketing of cooking gas has brought them at loggerheads with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) dealers. Sounding an alarm, LPG Dealers’ Association office bearers said that gas agency owners would observe three-day strike from December 19 if the cases lodged against them were not withdrawn.
The dealers today organised a meeting and handed over a memorandum to the assistant commissioner in this regard. They said the gap between demand and supply was the root cause of the shortage of cooking gas.
They said commercial use of LPG cylinders had further aggravated the problem. They also demanded that the administration should conduct raid on hotels and check four wheelers that are using LPG as fuel.
They said the district administration had made a plan to streamline the LPG supply in the city and had deputed an inspector of supply office at LPG godown. But the plan failed due to less supply of LPG cylinders. They claimed that the were are friendly with consumers understood their problems. In the winter season shortage of LPG due to excess demand and marriage season was a yearly phenomenon, they claimed.
Significantly, on district magistrate Dr Hariom’s directive, the ADM city and the district supply officer conducted surprise raids at LPG godowns. Various irregularities were detected during the inspection. A show cause notice was also issued to the dealers and when they failed to reply, FIRs were lodged against three gas agencies.
Henceforth, the DM also sought suspension of dealership of Tarang Gas Agency, Suraj Indane Gas Service, Mahindra Gas Service and Ashoka Gas Service.
The district administration also requested the territory manager of the Indian Oil Corporation Allahabad/Lucknow and sales officer, LPG Gorakhpur plant, to stop the supply of gas cylinders to these agencies with immediate effect. The consumers of these agencies were attached to other agencies.
Now, the LPG Dealers Association has decided in a meeting not to supply gas to any attached consumer of other gas agencies.
