Uttarakhand Food and Civil Supply Minister Pritam Singh presided over a meeting with department officers, representatives from Banks and Indian Oil Corporation at his office in the Vidhan Sabha and directed them to take measures for the redressal of people’s concerns over Direct Benefit Transfer lPG (DBTl) scheme.
Singh directed the IOC officers to ensure regular supply of lPG cylinders to the agencies in the State.
Irregularities in new gas connections and weight being tampered with in the cylinders will not be tolerated. The minister directed the IOC officers to plug the loopholes promptly.
He expressed disappointment over increasing complaints coming over DBTl scheme and directed the IOC officers to ensure that cash under DBTl scheme is directly transferred in the bank account of gas connection holders without delay.
On the occasion, the State principal secretary Radha Raturi said that complaints related to short supply of cooking gas in mountainous parts are mounting. Due to this, the demand of kerosene oil is on the rise. The IOC officials should increase its supply of cooking gas in mountainous parts of the state so that customers get their cooking gas on demand from the agency concerned.
The additional secretary Chandresh Kumar said that all the customers should be given 12 subsidised cylinders each year. Others present on the occasion were Dhirendra Kumar and VK Sundriyal from IOC, bank officers and department officers, it is learnt.