Cooking gas: Only 30 pc shipped in, in last 3 months
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, August 27 2025: Even as Manipur has been facing a shortage of cooking gas since April last year, only about 30 per cent of the daily requirement of cooking gas has reportedly been brought to the State over the past three months.

This significant deficit has put LPG distributors in a tough spot, struggling to meet consumers demand.

With the crisis deepening, the All Manipur Indane Distributors' Association (AMIDA) convened a crucial meeting to discuss the ongoing crisis and explore possible solutions.

The meeting, after thorough deliberations, agreed to submit a memorandum to the CAF&PD Commissioner and Registrar to take serious note of the cooking gas supply shortage and resolve the issue.

The meeting also resolved to submit a similar memorandum to IOCL State level coordinator at Imphal and North East Integrated Office at Guwahati to highlight the shortage of cooking gas in Manipur.

Speaking to the media after the meeting, the LPG distributors stated that the suspension of vehicular movement along National Highway 2 (Imphal-Dimapur road) and the poor condition of National Highway 37 (Imphal-Jiribam) have severely disrupted LPG transportation.

The road condition in Meghalaya is also poor, and traversing the State takes two to three days, they said and added that empty LPG tanker trucks heading to load LPG and returning to Manipur take no less than 15 days.

That means a tanker truck can barely manage two trips in a month, they added.

Further stating that the LPG bottling plant supplies only one-third of the daily requirement of conking gas, they added that LPG distributors have a backlog of around three months' worth of supply.

Even though the LPG Area Manager at Silchar considered sending packed cylinders directly, the poor road condition has made it unfeasible, they said and added that the situation will worsen if the authorities don't take serious note of the issue and take necessary actions.

They, meanwhile, appealed to LPG consumers to replace their Suraksha hose pipes every five year, noting that this change must be uploaded on the system through LPG distributors.

Failure to do so will render them ineligible to claim insurance in case of accidents like fire, they said.

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