IOC officials likely to examine LPG anomalies
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, November 21 2015 : A team of high ranking IOC officials from North East Integrated Sales Office, Guwahati is likely to visit the State capital to collect a first hand account of the difficulties encountered by LPG consumers in Manipur.

The team would be visiting Imphal in response to an appeal made by the State Level Coordinator of IOC's Imphal Divisional Sales Office to make a direct assessment of LPG distribution problems in the State and devise necessary remedial measures, conveyed an official source.

Hotel rooms for accommodation of the IOC officials were already booked but the trip was deferred for a few days.

Nonetheless, they are likely to arrive here on either Monday or Tuesday.

Meanwhile, following a series of reports published in The Sangai Express about several grievances encountered by LPG consumers in the State, IOC's Imphal-based officials have started making surprise visits to LPG distributors as and when refills are distributed in order to check irregularities and discrepancies in the distribution pattern.

The surprise visits are particularly aimed at checking issuance of refills to people who come with letterheads in addition to prevention of other wrongful practices.

Not long after The Sangai Express launched a survey on whether LPG con suraers are getting their minimum requirement of LPG refills in time, a team of an existing LPG distributors' association was constituted a few days back informed some member distributors of the association. The primary objective of constituting the team is to check taking refills through unlawful or unethical means.

They said that they too would launch a campaign of sur prise visits. Lauding the new campaign of The Sangai Express, the distributors said that the same campaign has turned out to be a big help to them in their efforts to do away with the practice ", of demanding refills on the capacity of letterheads, Regardless of whether they bring letterheads or not, some police personnel were demanding refills.

The new campaign has considerably deterred this unethical practice, they added.

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