Tamil Nadu - Chennai   

Indane customers can collect refills

CHENNAI: Last week’s downpour and the consequential water-logging in many places have come in the way of the door delivery of liquefied petroleum gas cylinders to many households.

Water-logging around the distributors’ godowns and on several streets had cut off the access to these places hampering the normal delivery of cylinders by vehicles in many areas, according to the Indian Oil Corporation.

For many households, LPG consumption went up during the rain with almost all the family members staying at home.

The seasonal changes also increased their consumption, particularly for heating water. Several such households were calling their LPG distributors seeking refills at the earliest, according to a senior official of the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.

The IOC on Monday announced “special arrangements to enable the customers to collect refills from special centres notified by the Indane distributors.”

“Indane customers are requested to contact their respective distributors to know the details of their designated centres for refill delivery and the seniority of booking before collecting their refills,” a release said.

This temporary arrangement, for a week, is only for areas severely affected by water-logging.

Wherever the road conditions and accessibility have not been affected, the door delivery of refills through delivery vehicles continues .

The release said that the IOC had taken all measures to ensure adequate supply of bulk LPG to its bottling plants and augment supplies to the distributors.

The official of the BPCL said that despatches from its bottling plant were normal on Monday and it had asked the distributors to somehow reach the cylinders (from godowns) to the customers in such localities.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

“Disability the worst fallout of wars”
Watery woes continue for many Chennai residents
Sabhas to take the first initiative
Not enough trained teachers at special schools
A slew of improvements promised at Institute of Mental Health
Additional kerosene for card holders
Political, caste-based programmes should be banned in law college: court
Nehru to look after Arumugam’s portfolios
Panel to coordinate relief works
Assembly session prorogued
“AIADMK wholeheartedly welcomes quota for Arundathiyars”
Trains renumbered
TNERC’s order hailed
Children take ill
‘IT finishing schools’ planned
Books on Carnatic musicians released
Karunanidhi takes stock of security scenario in Tamil Nadu
ART centre at Stanley Hospital
‘Great explainer’ sets forth his ideas
Seminar to hone leadership skills
Sound engineer Sridhar dead
Never too late to combat gastro-intestinal cancer
Illegal sewer connections severed
Encroachments on waterways a factor behind floods
Woman constable found hanging
Indane customers can collect refills
More relief sought
Security at Central station stepped up
Solatium announced
Chidambaram congratulated
“Chennai sabhas need fool-proof security system”
Official postings
State in the process of drafting a new science and technology policy
B.P. Singh for strong action without arbitrariness
Chennai today

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu