Lockdown lag for LPG supply

Consumers may have to wait longer to get the delivery of cooking gas during the month of August as the latest rejig of the lockdown dates — the fifth so far — will eat out seven working days from the calendar.

Production and delivery of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) has been kept out of the ambit of emergency services which are to be exempted during the complete lockdown days, according to a Bengal government order.

In the initial days of the lockdown from March-end onwards, cooking gas remained under exempted categories such as the supply of milk or petrol pumps. During the state-initiated weekly lockdown, pumps are being allowed to operate but not the delivery of LPG or milk.