(a) whether the Oil Marketing Companies have received requests for issuing new Liquefied
Petroleum Gas (LPG) connections from different States/ UTs including Maharashtra;
(b) if so, the details thereof during each of the last three years and the current year;and
(c) the total number of LPG connections issued to those States/UTs during the said period?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS (SMT PANABAAKA LAKSHMI)
(a) to (c) The public sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs), namely, Indian Oil Corporation
Limited (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation
Limited (HPCL) have instructed their LPG distributors to register prospective customers and
release new LPG connections to them as per the policy in vogue after due verification. State/UT
wise details of new LPG connections released for last three years and for the period from April
-Dec’2012 is at Annexure.