Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Indane customers can collect refills

CHENNAI: Last week’s downpour and the consequential water-logging in many places have come in the way of the door delivery of liquefied petroleum gas cylinders to many households.

Water-logging around the distributors’ godowns and on several streets had cut off the access to these places hampering the normal delivery of cylinders by vehicles in many areas, according to the Indian Oil Corporation.

For many households, LPG consumption went up during the rain with almost all the family members staying at home.

The seasonal changes also increased their consumption, particularly for heating water. Several such households were calling their LPG distributors seeking refills at the earliest, according to a senior official of the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.

The IOC on Monday announced “special arrangements to enable the customers to collect refills from special centres notified by the Indane distributors.”

“Indane customers are requested to contact their respective distributors to know the details of their designated centres for refill delivery and the seniority of booking before collecting their refills,” a release said.

This temporary arrangement, for a week, is only for areas severely affected by water-logging.

Wherever the road conditions and accessibility have not been affected, the door delivery of refills through delivery vehicles continues .

The release said that the IOC had taken all measures to ensure adequate supply of bulk LPG to its bottling plants and augment supplies to the distributors.

The official of the BPCL said that despatches from its bottling plant were normal on Monday and it had asked the distributors to somehow reach the cylinders (from godowns) to the customers in such localities.

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