Comments on: A household can have only one LPG connection

By: d

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:12:43 +0000

It is necessary to first define a household. It may consist of many individuals and to restrict the supply to only one will lead to hardships. Can the Govt. ensure supply of new cylinder within a day of booking where a ‘household ‘ has two cylinders?. If the problem is with subsidy, Govt can fix annual supply of subsidised LPG cylinder per person per household. As for misuse, as rightly observed by the Hon’ble Madras High Court, it is for the Department to implement penal provision

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By: Hema

Hema — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:50:05 +0000

Has anyone seen a circular to this effect apart fromt he newsppaer article? My distributer has not approached anyone with any intimation of this.

By: Devika

Devika — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:57:16 +0000

Is this ruling not a violation of Madras High Court ruling of defining a connection in terms of a person and not household?

The court ruling was done just in October: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/10/09/stories/2009100955330400.htm

This means that the above appears to be violation of a court ruling or contempt of court.

If gas connection becomes in terms of household and not a person, anyone can guess who will most affected – working women. Working women would have a connection in their name before marriage. Once they marry and live with their husband who also had a connection in his name before marriage, the women would have to forego her connection. It will be terrible when marriages are on way of divorce which means the woman who lost her connection by way of marriage, after seperation would again have to go through the process of getting a new connection.

The country already is filled with contradictory laws. But no one thought, that government was so smart (stupid?) to make women suffer in the name of ‘preventing misuse of LPG’. This one LPG per household ruling is designed for blackmailing women into surrendering their connection.

By: Subs

Subs — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:30:22 +0000

The whole order seems to be ill thought of.

Firstly just because some of the connections are misused why should the entire populace suffer.

The leakage is more at the dealer and delivery boys level. Effective steps to be taken to plug this rather than resort to this order.

History has shown that wherever there is restriction in supply, it always leads to corruption.

If only one connection per household is allowed then the number of refills per connection will go up. It is not clear how this will help in getting LPG to BPL families.

By: Rakesh

Rakesh — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:23:13 +0000

Absence of double bottle connection is painful. This is because when the fuel in only cylinder runs out, one has to wait for unknown amount of time for the refill to arrive. Else one has to take a guess of how much fuel is present and book a cylinder, in which one may have to forgo some of the fuel. Moreover, it takes a lot of time to get a double bottle connection. Is there a better way to handle this?