Oil-marketing companies have managed to distribute around 68 million cooking gas cylinders, as part of the scheme to distribute three free cylinders to 80.3 million families in three months.
Assuming that each of these 68 million cylinders has gone against one connection, the lockdown relief from the government could not reach 12.3 million families with Ujjwala connections. According to industry experts, since free cylinders will be available only for three months from April to June, it is unlikely to benefit users optimally, unless the relief gets extended till ...
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First Published: Sun, May 24 2020. 22:26 IST
