Only 2 refills for consumer in 2015
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 17 2015:
A family of six members, on the average, needs eight LPG refills in a year assuming that one LPG refill lasts for 45 days.
Notably, the Government of India and the IOC have been providing 12 subsidized LPG refills to each consumer in a year.
One LPG consumer (consumer no.CX6389344) who has six members in the family has received just two refills from April till date.
The consumer said that they got just two refills last year too, one on July 3 and the second one on December 19 .
This year, the consumer got one refill on June 11 and another one on October 19 .
For the refill given on June 11, booking was done on January 6.As such, he had to wait for almost six months for a single refill.
Another LPG consumer (consumer no.3543) told The Sangai Express that he got only five refills between July 13, 2013 and November 16 this year.
He got the refills on November 24, 2013 (booking done on July 13), April 24, 2014 (booking December 17), October 28 (booking May 14, 2014), April 25, 2015 (booking Nov 14, 2014) and September 27, 2015 (booking done on May 30) .
The first consumer who had received only two refills this year has been awaiting maturity of his booking date which was done on October 5 .