lPG sales have jumped by 9.8 per cent in the fiscal year ended March 31 after the Government gave a record number of cooking gas connections, most of them to poor households. Public sector fuel retailers sold 18.9 million tons of packed domestic lPG -- the fuel that is sold to consumers in cylinders -- during 2016-17. “Packed lPG growth in 2015-16 was 7.1 per cent and in 2016-17 it was 9.8 per cent,” a senior oil ministry official said.