Ways to check adulteration in LPG cylinders

Pilot project in the offing to check adulteration of LPG
The Times of India

LUCKNOW: UP will soon acquire its first anti-pilferage device for
checking adulteration in LPG cylinders. The pilot project with Meerut,
a city notorious for the rampant malpractice as the pioneer city, has
already been launched, declared state minister for petroleum and
natural gas, Jitin Prasad on Wednesday. Addressing media, Prasad said
the ministry keen to promote a consumer friendly face, also proposes
to introduce multi-functional digital regulators to show the exact
quantity of gas left in a cylinder within next two months.

Elaborating upon the measures taken by the ministry to check
adulteration of diesel and petrol, the minister said that the
situation needs constant monitoring. The petroleum ministry is alert
on the count, he said and added how the department is planning to
launch a vehicle-monitoring system to track petrol and diesel tankers.
This system, he said, would keep a watch on the movement of the
vehicles and detect any suspicious deviation from the defined route.
In a response to a question about irregular supply of kerosene in the
state, Prasad took a potshot at the BSP government and said that
paucity of kerosene is directly linked to the incompetence of the
state agencies in managing the public distribution system. If the
produce meant for the poorest of the poor does not reach the segment,
then the delivery system needs to be blamed and spruced up, he said.

In Lucknow to preside over a review meeting, Prasad emphasised on the
vision-2015 set by the ministry which centres around customer
satisfaction. For instance, the department has devised a way to come
up with a viable solution to a recurrent problem faced in north India
during winters, he said. Since the LPG consumption is higher in the
region due to cold, a gap between demand and supply has been, over the
years, a common complaint. The petroleum ministry, he said, has now
made it compulsory to ensure that stockists maintain extra stock for a
fortnight readily available to tide over the temporary crisis. The
step, he hoped, will go a long way in streamlining the infrastructural
loopholes and artificial shortages .

Other ambitious projects being handled by the ministry include SMS
delivery of cylinder which is being launched in Delhi and Kochi, even
as expansion plans are already underway. Another scheme -- the green
corridor project -- connecting Delhi and Lucknow and Kanpur-Agra will
also include in its ambit eastern UP. "By 2013 we hope to set up CNG
stations in Purvanchal," he claimed. The minister, zeroing in on the
local scene, declared that piped gas supply will reach seventy per
cent of Lucknow households within next five years.
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