Lahore: In order to control the LPG mafia and provide LPG to the public at a cheap government price, the LPG price will be determined by a company consisting of PSO and other companies instead of OGRA. The power to set the price has been taken away from OGRA.
LPG will be sold only from LPG pumps and shops established under the laws, while action has been taken against those selling LBG illegally. The public will give the empty cylinder to the shopkeeper and take the full cylinder away to save the public from accidents.
The government will sell cheap and quality cylinders in the market in collaboration with the companies.
The government has started steps to rid the public of the LPG mafia. Now, instead of OGRA, a new company consisting of PSO, Sui Gas and oil companies will determine the price of LPG. The price of LPG for the next month must be set by this company.
According to the Ministry of Petroleum, all distributors and shopkeepers will sell LPG at the same price as the official price, no one will sell at an arbitrary price, immediate action will be taken against any shopkeeper or distributor who sells at an arbitrary price, while to protect the public from incidents of LPG cylinder explosions, LPG will be mixed in cylinders of standard OGRA-approved companies from two and three kilograms to five kilograms.
Consumers will bring empty gas cylinders and take away filled LPG cylinders, LPG will not be mixed in substandard and defective cylinders. If any shopkeeper is caught filling in substandard cylinders, his shop will be sealed and heavy fines will also be imposed.
On the other hand, LPG Distributors Association Secretary General Rana Abdul Jabbar, while talking to Express News, said, “We are ready. The government should provide us with quality cylinders at subsidized rates. We are ready to cooperate in every way and are also against the sale of illegal LPG.”
He said that we will implement whatever measures the government is taking to prevent accidents. Shopkeepers also do not want anyone to lose their lives and the shopkeeper is the one who is most at risk. We have told the shopkeepers not to fill LPG in defective cylinders. If any shopkeeper does this, action will be taken and we will not support any such shopkeeper.
The Secretary General said that shopkeepers whose pumps and other equipment have been seized should return them instead of wasting them. Some shopkeepers have taken them in installments, so it is better to return them after paying a fine than wasting them so that they can earn two meals a day in this period of inflation.