Have observed a three-times increase in demand for domestic PNG: IGL Chief

Indraprastha Gas Ltd was earlier doing 600 connections successful a time earlier the escalation of tensions successful West Asia, which has present reached up to 2,100 to 2,200 connections, Kamal Kishore Chatiwal, Managing Director of the city-gas distributor, told The Hindu astatine the sidelines of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board’s Energy Security Conference connected Friday (April 11, 2026).

“There has been a monolithic surge successful demand, successful the National Capital Region (NCR) especially, we are seeing registrations for caller connections and aged connections (activating dormant connections) has accrued 3 times,” helium stated, adding, “Earlier, we were doing 600 connections, present we person reached up to astir 2,100 to 2,200, and going guardant considering the push, we are expecting it to summation to 3,000 per day.”