After providing lPG in easy-to-carry 5kg cylinders, the Government is planning to launch 2kg bottles at local kirana stores even as it introduced online booking of new connections for subsidised cooking fuel.
lPG is traditionally available in 14.2kg cylinders, which are not very convenient to carry and its cost at `418 is considered high for poor and rural population.
A 5kg cylinder priced at `155 was introduced in October 2013.
“We are now planning to introduce a 2kg cylinder that can be easily carried... this will be particularly beneficial for the rural people and poor who cannot afford to pay the price of a 14.2kg or even 5kg cylinder,” Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said here.
To begin with, the penetration of 5kg cylinder will be increased. New subsidised connections of 5kg cylinders in rural as well as far flung areas too would be issued in first place.Pradhan was speaking at the launch of online booking of lPG connections.
