Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Surjya Narayan Patro on Monday wrote to Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to provide domestic LPG cylinders to poor people in the Titli and floods-affected Gajapati, Ganjam and Rayagada districts soon.
“As you are aware, ‘Titli’ and subsequent floods have severely affected lives and properties of people of Odisha, particularly in Gajapati, Ganjam and Rayagada districts. As financial conditions of people have been very week, the State Government has started helping poor in every respect.
The people are unable to pay subsidised prices for domestic subsidised cylinders under the Prime Minister Ujjala Yojana. Kindly provide cooking gas to them free of cost,” Patro urged Pradhan in the letter.
There are 50,990 subsidised LPG connections in Gajapati district, 2,39,683 connections in Ganjam district and 81,979 connections in Rayagada districts as per information ascertained from SLC, Odisha, Patro mentioned in the letter.