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India has astir 60 days of substance banal cover, the authorities said connected Thursday (March 26, 2026), adding that determination is nary shortage of petrol, diesel, oregon LPG arsenic it dismissed reports of shortages arsenic a "deliberate misinformation campaign" aimed astatine triggering panic buying.
The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas said each petrol pumps crossed the state are adequately stocked and operating normally, with nary rationing of petrol oregon diesel.
India, the world's fourth-largest refiner and fifth-largest exporter of petroleum products, has structurally assured home substance availability and continues to proviso refined fuels to implicit 150 countries, the Ministry said successful a statement.
"Every Indian refinery (which crook crude lipid into fuels similar petrol and diesel) is moving astatine implicit 100% utilisation," it said.
"Crude lipid supplies for adjacent 60 days person already been tied up by Indian lipid companies. There is nary proviso gap." India, it said, has 74 days of full crude lipid and substance stocking capacity.
"Actual banal screen is astir 60 days close present (including crude stocks, products stocks and the dedicated strategical retention successful caverns) adjacent arsenic we are connected the 27th time of the Middle East crisis," it said.
"Nearly 2 months of dependable proviso is disposable for each Indian national careless of what happens globally." With adjacent 2 months of crude procurement already secured, India is wholly unafraid for adjacent galore months and the quantity successful strategical cavern retention becomes secondary successful specified a proviso situation, it said.
"Any practice that India's reserves are depleted oregon insufficient should beryllium dismissed with the disdain it deserves," the ministry said.
It added that crude supplies stay unchangeable contempt tensions astir the Strait of Hormuz, with higher volumes from alternate sources offsetting immoderate disruption. Indian refiners are operating astatine supra afloat capacity, and crude supplies for the adjacent 60 days person already been secured.
The Ministry said India presently has astir 60 days of substance banal cover, including crude, refined products and strategical reserves, countering claims of critically debased inventories.
LPG supplies are besides sufficient, it said, with home accumulation accrued and import requirements reduced. Additional cargoes person been secured from aggregate countries, ensuring dependable availability.
The authorities warned that misleading societal media posts and fabricated claims of shortages oregon exigency measures were being dispersed to make unnecessary anxiety, and said enactment volition beryllium taken against those responsible.
