LPG domestic cylinder delivery delayed, Chandigarh tricity consumers fume

Gaurav Kanthwal

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Mohali, January 29

Domestic LPG refills are taking more than a week’s time for delivery at home in the tricity for around past one month. Several gas agency dealers have cited transporters’ strike in the first week of January as the reason which disrupted the LPG cylinder supply chain for three days.

Panic booking by consumers created a huge backlog which dealers had been struggling to clear for the past few days. The cascading effect is continuing with gas agencies taking around a week to deliver refills at doorstep of consumers.

An Indane dealer in Sector 44-C said it was taking at least a week’s time for delivery of an LPG cylinder. The refill delivery time had come down from two weeks, he said.

An agency owner in Sector 16, Panchkula, said, “The backlog is such that a minimum 12 days are required for delivery of the LPG refill, but the situation is improving fast. In Kharar, it is taking a week before a cylinder is delivered at the consumer’s doorstep.”

A week ago, long queues of consumers waiting for the LPG refill were witnessed outside a godown near Motiaz City in Zirakpur.

A Lohgarh gas agency dealer said, “The situation has improved to some extent, but it still takes four days to get an LPG cylinder refill.”

Indane officials said the backlog had almost cleared after one month. “The problem will be sorted out in three to four days,” said a Sector 44-C LPG dealer.

Krishan Kumar, a Bharatgas distributor in Sector 38-C, said, “On an average, 300 to 350 cylinders are delivered, but there is a backlog of around 1,500 to 2,000 bookings. It is being cleared gradually.”