Urban Fragility
The crisis unfolding across India’s cities is not, at its core, about cooking gas. It is about the quiet architecture of exclusion that underpins urban growth.
The crisis unfolding across India’s cities is not, at its core, about cooking gas. It is about the quiet architecture of exclusion that underpins urban growth.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said in Nagpur that there is no shortage of cooking gas in the state and accused the Congress of deliberately spreading fear among the people.
According to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, the government has issued a control order directing refineries and petrochemical units to maximise the production of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and divert key hydrocarbon streams to the LPG pool.
The police have directed the hotels near the Aluva bus stand not to cook food using cooking gas on the day of the arrival of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on December 7.
As per the revised rates, commercial LPG cylinders will now cost Rs 2,119.50 per unit in Delhi and price of domestic LPG cylinders will be Rs 1,103 per unit.
The government has clarified that the present system where the oil companies pay the subsidy amount and the government reimbursed such payments would continue.
LPG till Tuesday evening had stood at Rs 714 per cylinder in Delhi and Rs 684.5 per cylinder in Mumbai
Nearly 10 crore new LPG connections have been issued in four years since 2014, as compared to 13 crore in the nearly six-decade period from 1955 to 2014.
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