Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is taking some stringent measures to weed out illegal customers of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) or cooking gas in Gujarat.
As part of these measures, the state-run oil marketing firm decided to block 4.7 lakh LPG consumer connections in the state for two reasons.
IOC identified 70,000 connections which are held by customers under ‘different customers same address’ (DCSA). Besides, the firm identified four lakh customers who have not asked for refill of LPG cylinder for more than a year.
The company decided to block all these customers. It asked the customers to visit IOC office personally and get verification done if they are interested in renewing their connection.
There are close to one crore LPG connection holders in the state. IOC controls 54 percent market share in Gujarat with 40 lakh customers.
Last year, the central government took the decision to limit number of subsidised cylinders per connection holder to six in a year, to avoid slippage of subsidy burden on state exchequer. Following this, oil marketing firms are conducting know your customer (KYC) drive across the country.
Under the KYC drive, customers have to provide proof of identify and proof of residence along with bank details to dealers of LPG. Last day of filing KYC details was December 31.
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