LPG price includes delivery charges: BPCL

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, February 9

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), in response to an RTI query, has stated that it doesn’t seek any extra amount above the sale price as delivery charges.

BPCL Territory Manager Rajesh Kumar, while providing information under Right to Information Act, 2005, stated that the sale price included delivery charges. “Rs 21.5 is being taken as delivery charges and it is already included in the sale price. However, if one takes refill delivery from godown, he or she can get the rebate of the same on the sale price,” the reply states.

The RTI query was filed by one Jagjit Singh, a resident of Sultanwind road.

An LPG consumer, Bhupinder Singh, said employees engaged in delivering cylinders didn’t not buy the suggestion that the selling price included the cost of delivery. “They refuse to deliver the refill if they are not paid delivery charges above the selling price,” he said.

He added that they didn’t give any receipt of the said charge. There are over four lakh LPG consumers in the city and the gas distributors are making money in crores, he said, adding that the company must take a note of it.

Residents say gas distributors have no fear of the law as they tend to operate as per their whims and fancies.