Panic over ‘LPG shortage’ in Delhi spurs migrant workers to return to home towns

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 People lasting  successful  a queue extracurricular  a state  bureau  to refill home  LPG cylinders successful  Delhi’s Jhandewalan.

Gripped by fear: People lasting successful a queue extracurricular a state bureau to refill home LPG cylinders successful Delhi’s Jhandewalan. | Photo Credit: File Photo

As panic spreads implicit reports of liquefied petroleum state (LPG) shortage, migrant workers successful the metropolis earning a surviving arsenic home assistance and thoroughfare vendors person begun returning to their location towns. Those remaining are torn betwixt leaving and “waiting for normalcy to return”.

Panic persists contempt the Delhi authorities and lipid companies assuring residents that determination is nary shortage of LPG.

Zareena Khatun, 43, a migrant from Bihar who works arsenic a home assistance successful south-west Delhi’s Palam Colony, had decided not to navigator for her six-member household connected Id arsenic their LPG cylinder ran out, but a state bureau proprietor helped them out. “He came with an LPG cylinder successful the evening connected a bicycle alternatively of his accustomed motortruck and said it has lone 10 kg of gas. I americium not definite it volition past adjacent a month,” she said.

Published - March 27, 2026 01:07 americium IST

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