The All India LPG Distributors Federation recently announced that they will not deliver cylinders to homes from October 1, 2012. Consumers will have to personally collect their cylinders from the distributors’ offices. The LPG Distribution Federation’s president, Pratap Doshi cleared the air on the latest twist in the contentious LPG issue, which has been simmering ever since the six cylinders a year, announcement.

The interview:
Why did you take the decision to stop home delivery of LPG cylinders?
The government has come out with a new policy of dual prices – subsidised and non-subsidised cylinders. Government will subsidise six cylinders per annum and the balance cylinders a customer needs will be supplied at higher, non-subsidised rates. There is no foolproof system in which we can record the delivery of the cylinder in the customer’s premises. There are a number of points, with reference to the blue book, i.e. the official book a consumer has as a record for cylinder deliveries, that can also be confusing like all customers do not have the blue book at the time of delivery so what do we do then? All these issues need to be clarified.