Lok Sabha Question No. 1430 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-15
Subject: LPG Consumption
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: Ganesan Selvam, Gajanan Chandrakant Kirtikar, Dhanush M Kumar, Manjulata Mandal, C.N. Annadurai

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1430

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 15 th  DECEMBER, 2022

## LPG Consumption

## 1430.   SHRI SELVAM G.:

SHRI GAJANAN KIRTIKAR:

SHRI DHANUSH M. KUMAR:

SHRIMATI MANJULATA MANDAL:

SHRI C.N. ANNADURAI:

## पेोलयम एवं ाक ृतक गैस मंी

Will the Minister of  PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS  be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of LPG consumption during each of the last three years along with domestic LPG prices, month-wise;
- (b) the details of LPG connections provided to BPL households in Tamil Nadu during each of the last three years, year-wise;
- (c) the details of average consumption of LPG per household in rural areas of the country;
- (d) the challenges faced by the Government while giving LPG connection in rural and remote areas of the country;
- (e) whether the Government proposes to open LPG agencies in rural areas to ease the availability of LPG in rural and tribal areas of the country and if so, the details of LPG agencies opened in rural areas of Tamil Nadu; and
- (f) whether the Government has received a number of complaints of irregularities in providing LPG connections and if so, the details thereof and the corrective steps taken in this regard?

## ANSWER

## पेोलयम एवं ाक ृतक गैस मंालय म राय मंी ( ी रामेवर तेल )

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS (SHRI RAMESWAR TELI)

- (a)  During 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22, domestic LPG consumption was 23.08 MMT, 25.13 MMT and 25.50 MMT respectively.  Details of domestic LPG prices at Delhi market from April 2020 to 1 st December 2022 are at Annexure.
- (b)    In  Tamil  Nadu,  1.00  Lakh,  NIL  (scheme  was  not  in  operation)  and  2.14  Lakh  PMUY connections were provided during 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22, respectively.
- (c)  OMCs have reported that there is no separate flagging of rural and urban customers in their software. However, majority of LPG connections under PMUY have been released in rural areas and average LPG consumption per household of PMUY beneficiaries was 3.68 refills of 14.2 kg during 2021-22.

(d)  Implementation of PMUY is monitored closely in terms of number of eligible beneficiaries identified and the actual number of connections released vis-a-vis LPG  coverage in States/Districts.  The  difficulties  faced  by  OMCs  are  mainly  related  to  the  identification  of households, difficult terrain, low awareness on usefulness of LPG etc. OMCs and Government have been running LPG Panchayats and mass awareness programmes through print, electronic and social media highlighting the benefits of sustained usage of LPG.

(e)    OMCs  continuously  expand  the  distribution  network  by  commissioning  new  LPG distributorships. More  than 11700 LPG  distributorships have been commissioned  since 01.04.2014 till 01.11.2022 and more than 90 % of these are catering to rural areas.

OMCs  have  also  joined  hands  with  Common  Service  Centres  (CSCs)  to  improve  access  to various LPG services like booking refills and refill delivery in rural and far-flung areas and as of 01.11.2022, agreements with more than 63090 CSCs have been done.

Under  Unified  Guidelines  for  Selection  of  LPG  distributorships,  OMCs  have  advertised  308 locations for setting up of new LPG distributorships and out of this, OMCs have commissioned 271 distributorships as on 01.11.2022 in the State of Tamil Nadu.

(f)  Oil  Marketing  Companies  have  reported  that  they  have  received  160  established  cases  of irregularities in providing new LPG connections during last three years. In all these cases, action has been taken as per provisions of Marketing Discipline Guidelines/distributorship agreement.

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Annexure referred to in part (a) of Unstarred Parliament Question No. 1430 to be answered  on  15.12.2022  asked  by  Shri  Selvam  G.  and  others  regarding  'LPG Consumption'.

| Month       | Retail Selling Price of Domestic LPG refill of 14.2 Kg   |
|-------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
| 01-May-20   | 581.50                                                   |
| 01-Jun-20   | 593.00                                                   |
| 01-Jul-20   | 594.00                                                   |
| 01-Aug-20   | 594.00                                                   |
| 01-Sep-20   | 594.00                                                   |
| 01-Oct-20   | 594.00                                                   |
| 01-Nov-20   | 594.00                                                   |
| 01-Dec-20   | 594.00                                                   |
| 02-Dec-20   | 644.00                                                   |
| 15-Dec-20   | 694.00                                                   |
| 01-Jan-21   | 694.00                                                   |
| 01-02-2021  | 694.00                                                   |
| 04-02-2021  | 719.00                                                   |
| 15-02-2021  | 769.00                                                   |
| 25-02-2021  | 794.00                                                   |
| 01-Mar-21   | 819.00                                                   |
| 01-Apr-21   | 809.00                                                   |
| 01-May-21   | 809.00                                                   |
| 01-Jun-21   | 809.00                                                   |
| 01-Jul-21   | 834.50                                                   |
| 01-Aug-21   | 834.50                                                   |
| 17-Aug-21   | 859.50                                                   |
| 01-Sep-21   | 884.50                                                   |
| 01-Oct-21   | 884.50                                                   |
| 06-Oct-21   | 899.50                                                   |
| 01-Nov-21   | 899.50                                                   |
| 01-Dec-21   | 899.50                                                   |
| 1-Jan-2022  | 899.50                                                   |
| 1-Feb-2022  | 899.50                                                   |
| 1-Mar-2022  | 899.50                                                   |
| 21-Mar-2022 | 949.50                                                   |
| 01-Apr-2022 | 949.50                                                   |
| 1-May-2022  | 949.50                                                   |
| 7-May-2022  | 999.50                                                   |
| 19-May-2022 |                                                          |
| 1-Jun-2022  | 1003.00                                                  |
| 1-Jul-2022  |                                                          |
| 6-Jul-2022  |                                                          |
| 1-Aug-2022  |                                                          |
| 1-Sep-2022  |                                                          |
| 1-Oct-2022  |                                                          |
| 1-Nov-2022  | 1053.00                                                  |
| 1-Dec-2022  |                                                          |

Source : Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies