The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas issued a regulatory directive reducing the mandatory inter-booking waiting period for domestic liquefied petroleum gas refills to twenty-five days across all consumer categories nationwide.
The revised policy directive applies uniformly to all customers served by state-owned oil marketing enterprises, including Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum, and Hindustan Petroleum. Previously, households in various licensing zones faced divergent booking windows extending up to thirty or thirty-five days, creating fuel replenishment delays during peak festive seasons.
Petroleum Ministry officials explained that the decision follows a comprehensive review of domestic supply buffers and digital distribution logistics under the unified PM Ujjwala Yojana database. With domestic bottling plant automation and streamlined bottling turnaround schedules, supply chains can now accommodate shorter booking intervals without risking artificial hoarding.
Consumer rights organizations and household associations welcomed the reform, emphasizing that large joint families in semi-urban and rural areas had frequently struggled with prolonged rationing intervals. The standardized timeline is expected to eliminate localized grey-market black marketing of commercial cylinders by regularizing domestic supply availability.
Oil marketing companies have completed necessary software updates across their unified booking mobile applications and Interactive Voice Response platforms. The new twenty-five-day cycle takes effect immediately, allowing registered customers to generate new refill bookings as soon as the twenty-five-day threshold elapses from their previous delivery confirmation.
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