Nearly ₹1,000 hike in commercial cylinder price is a harsh blow to cafes, hotels and street side vendors: Uttam

Criticizing the Centre for the hike successful prices of 19kg commercialized Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinder, Telangana Civil Supplies Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said that this would person a harsh interaction connected hotels, restaurants, cafes and streetside vendors.

He said that the terms present is implicit ₹3,000. As per the revised prices, effectual from Friday (May 1, 2026), a 19 kg commercialized cylinder terms was accrued by astir ₹1,000 per refill. With this, the caller terms is ₹3,315, against the erstwhile ₹2,321 per commercialized cylinder, an summation of ₹994.