The State requires a total of 23,02,732 cooking gas cylinders every month and runs with shortage of 20,070 cylinders weighing 1,878 metric tonnes.
Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Sanjay Kumar Dasburma informed this in the State Assembly in response to a question of Congress MlA Chandrasekhar Majhi on Saturday.
Stating that the Department has no information on requirement of lPG cylinders block-wise, Dasburma said Ganjam and Deogarh districts are the highest and the lowest users of cooking gas cylinders, respectively.