As LPG truckers’ stir continues, OMCs take steps to ease supply

As the stoppage of operations by the Southern Region Bulk LPG Transport Owners’ Association continues, the state-owned lipid selling companies (OMCs) person activated what they telephone program B to guarantee supplies to 2.37 crore progressive home consumers successful Tamil Nadu and 8 crore consumers successful the six confederate States.

The 3 companies – Indian Oil, Hindustan Petroleum, and Bharat Petroleum – are operating other shifts astatine bottling plants that get liquefied petroleum state (LPG) supplies via pipelines. They are besides sending cylinder-carrying trucks, to these plants to cod refilled cylinders. “The 3 companies that marketplace LPG nether Indane, HP Gas, Bharat Gas brands are helping each different too. Plants with pipeline supplies are moving connected Sunday also,” said an authoritative with the HPCL.

As acold arsenic Chennai is concerned, Indian Oil has 2 bottling plants that are connected. The Chennai Petroleum Corporation refinery astatine Manali besides supplies LPG to IOCL. Official sources successful Indian Oil said the metropolis would not look immoderate contented successful drafting supplies arsenic they had four-and-a-half days of banal left.

A distributor of different institution said his past load was distributed connected Saturday. For Monday, successful spot of his regular 2 loads per day, helium volition get lone one. “I was told to spell to the works of different lipid institution to prime up the load,” helium said.

Another distributor said that contempt this being the Deepavali season, bookings were not excessively high. “They are conscionable supra normal. We tin manage. But deliveries are taking astir 3 to 4 days and not connected the aforesaid day,” helium said.

The Southern Region Bulk LPG Transport Owners Association is protesting against caller declaration norms for tanker lorries supplying LPG.

Association president K. Sunderraj said they had day-long meetings with elder officials of the OMCs, and were waiting for a affirmative response. “Our declaration play got implicit by August 31 and the caller play starts lone connected November 1... Single motortruck owners are besides portion of our relation and astir 500 of those trucks person been affected by definite issues. We privation those to beryllium resolved. We bash not mean to occupation consumers successful immoderate mode during the festive season,” helium said.