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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Two kitchens can get you two LPG connections -Piyush Pandey

Two kitchens can get you two LPG connections -Piyush Pandey

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published Published on Oct 22, 2012   modified Modified on Oct 22, 2012
-The Times of India

MUMBAI: Family matters. If you are married and stay with your parents or siblings, you can double the quota of subsidized cooking gas cylinders to 12 from the government notified cap of 6 in a year. All you have to do is show a separate cooking platform or kitchen to avail of a second liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) connection.

This should come as a big respite for those struggling to balance their household budgets after a steep increase in prices thanks to the capping of subsidized cylinders.

The government has now made it illegal for a household to have multiple connections under its policy of 'one household, one LPG connection'. However, executives say oil marketing firms can make an exception if a consumer can show food being cooked in two kitchens under the same roof. The connection would, however, have to be in different names.

"In such cases, the consumer may have multiple connections from the same oil firm or a different oil firm. But the oil firm will have to be satisfied and the distributor of the oil firm will physically verify that two separate kitchens are maintained in the same household for cooking purposes," said a senior official of an oil marketing company, adding that such multiple connections may be allowed on a case-to-case basis.

Many Indians stay in a joint family with six or eight members and consume more than one LPG cylinder a month. Some also have separate kitchens. They could ideally seek this benefit. But consumers are still confused as to what makes them eligible for two connections. Anand Lele, who stays in his ancestral property in Mahim with his wife, sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren and has two separate LPG connections from BPCL in his and his wife's name, says, "One household is one group of the family with a kitchen platform, stove and LPG connection and the second household is a sub-group of the family with a separate kitchen platform, a stove and an LPG connection. Staying in one ancestral house cannot be termed as one household; both family groups are separate households and can legally have two separate connections despite sharing the same building address."

An executive director of another oil marketing firm tried to clarify the issue. "In case of many joint families, the food is cooked in a single kitchen. However, in case of joint families having separate kitchens, we will look at allowing them to have separate connections after fulfilling KYC norms. However, the same has to be physically verified by our distributors."

The Times of India, 22 October, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Two-kitchens-can-get-you-two-LPG-connections/articleshow/16907684.cms


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