Finance Bill fails to address LPG shortage, says DMK MP P. Wilson

Raising concerns implicit India’s increasing vulnerability successful liquefied petroleum state (LPG) supplies, DMK MP from Rajya Sabha, P. Wilson connected Friday questioned the Centre connected the steps taken to code the existent scarcity amid planetary tensions. Speaking during the statement connected the Finance Bill, 2026, successful the Rajya Sabha, helium pointed retired that India is present among the world’s largest LPG consumers, with yearly request touching astir 31 cardinal tonnes, but has retention capableness capable for hardly 3 to 4 weeks.

He noted that astir two-thirds of India’s LPG request is imported, mostly from West Asia done the strategically delicate Strait of Hormuz, leaving the state exposed to geopolitical shocks. This dependence, helium said, was the effect of the government’s nonaccomplishment to diversify vigor sources and its dilatory gait successful gathering earthy state infrastructure specified arsenic pipelines and LNG terminals. The prolonged underutilisation of the Kochi LNG terminal was cited arsenic a lawsuit successful point.