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More than 4.2 lakh consumers have opted for transferring their cooking gas connections to their preferred or required LPG distributors, according to data shared by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. The transfers were made under the online portability scheme initiated in 2013. “Portability option for transfer of LPG connection was launched across the country in 2013.
Subsequently, the process of online transfer of connection within same market was made fully automatic for the transfers within the same Oil Marketing Company (OMC),” Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan said in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha. “OMCs have reported that the complaints pertaining to portability scheme are resolved immediately and there are nil established cases of complaints on portability,” Pradhan added.
