Oil marketing firms have decided to initiate penal action against users of piped natural gas (PNG) who also own LPG connections as well as consumers who have multiple LPG connections.
The oil companies are soon expected to come out with a deadline for consumers to surrender any additional LPG connections in the same name across multiple households or different names in the same household, failing which they will face a fine, imprisonment or blocking of connection.
However, consumers would get a short-term breather as they will be allowed to purchase three more cylinders at subsidized rates till March 2013, irrespective of the number of cylinders they have consumed till September 15. Confirming the move, IOC director (marketing) Makrand Nene told TOI, "We will share data with HPCL and BPCL and ensure the same user does not hold LPG connections from different oil firms to check misuse of subsidized LPG cylinders."
Source:-The Times of India
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