Consumer protection watchdog directs restaurants, hotels against levying any additional ‘LPG, gas crisis charges’

Addressing levy of immoderate forced surcharge amidst the West Asia crisis’ interaction connected LPG supplies, the Consumer Central Protection Authority (CCPA), successful an advisory issued Tuesday (March 24, 2026), asked restaurants and hotels to not levy immoderate unfair further charges, arsenic ‘gas surcharge’, ‘fuel outgo recovery’ oregon ‘gas situation charge’, implicit and supra the last terms of food.

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The watchdog termed specified levies arsenic usurpation of existing guidelines, successful summation to being an “unfair commercialized practice” arsenic it entails “unjustified costs and deficiency of transparency”.

“The contiguous signifier of levying ‘LPG charges’ oregon akin charges is an effort to circumvent the aforesaid guidelines by adopting a antithetic nomenclature,” it stated, adding, “The CCPA has clarified that input costs specified arsenic fuel, LPG, energy and different operational expenses are portion of the outgo of moving a concern and indispensable beryllium factored into the pricing of paper items.”

CCPA held that immoderate imposition of the “unfair oregon unauthorised charges” would beryllium “dealt with appropriately, and indispensable enactment shall beryllium taken”.

The watchdog asked consumers to petition removal of immoderate specified levy from the measure magnitude and/or lodge a ailment with the National Consumer Helpline (NCH), among different things.