The latest being LPG shortage. He claims state needs 50000 cylinders a day against which only 1000 cylinders are supplied from the central government. He pleaded the centre government to intervene and sort out the issue. He has written to Union petroleum and natural gas minister Mr. Hardeep Puri. He has urged the Minister and said there’s a shortage of commercial gas resulting to huge shut down of hotels and restaurants, and the CM claims in his letter there is a demand-supply variant, forcing the hospital industry suffer.
Despite the State Government is following the guidelines issued by the centre to prioritize domestic consumption as primary and commercial as secondary. The state Government is not able to meet both domestic and commercial consumers.
Siddaramaiah highlighted the absence of integrated monitoring system for commercial distribution. The Autos too are suffering due to shortage in supply.
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The Chief Minister concluded the letter saying, “I request your kind intervention to ensure adequate allocation and availability of commercial LPG and Auto LPG to Karnataka, keeping in view the operational requirements and unique dependency patterns of the state, Bangalore in particular”.