MYSURU, February 7, 2015
Updated: February 7, 2015 05:40 IST
R. KRISHNA KUMAR
There are around 5.5. million LPG consumers in Mysuru district and more than 95 per cent of them have complied with the norms.— Photo: M.A. Sriram
It’ll be restored once customers submit Aadhaar number or bank account details
Online and mobile booking of LPG cylinders by customers who have not submitted either their bank account or Aadhaar details has been blocked by LPG distributors in the city.
This is to ensure that the customers comply with the required norms under the Modified Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG (DBTL) scheme.
The facility would be restored once the documents are submitted.
Modified DBTL norms
Under the modified DBTL norms, consumers who do not have Aadhaar need to submit only bank account details to the LPG distributor and the 17-digit LPG identity number to the bank, to claim subsidy. But even these norms have not been complied by some consumers.
Sources told The Hindu that the public sector oil and gas companies – HP, Indian Oil and Bharat Gas – have raised queries with the LPG distributors, suspecting that such customers could be holding benami or fictitious accounts.
A representative of Sri Raghavendra Agency, which is a distributor for HP Gas, told The Hindu that seeding of consumer number with bank accounts has not taken place after January 20 due to a technical glitch, which was being sorted out.
However, there have been cases of the facility not being restored even after the submission of documents to banks and the LPG distributors.
Repeated reminders
Mehul Patel, distributor for HP Gas, said that in spite of media coverage and repeated reminders through SMS, some consumers feign ignorance about the norms and blame the distributors.
So they have been asked to give an undertaking in writing that they are aware of the DBTL requirements and would comply with the norms in due course, he added.
There are around 5.5. million LPG consumers in the district and more than 95 per cent of them have complied with the Aadhaar and revised DBTL norms.