Additional measures to ensure domestic LPG supplies likely in Telangana

Telangana considers additional LPG supply measures amid rising demand and West Asia conflict, ensuring household availability and addressing commercial shortages.

An uneasy calm around domestic cooking gas supplies has come to grip households despite public sector oil marketing companies introducing various measures in recent days to ensure the availability and advising the consumers against resorting to panic booking.

There is a spike of upto 40% in the number of domestic LPG refill bookings over the last few days in Telangana, said sources, who did not wish to be identified. However, many of the deliveries, especially in rural areas, could not be completed for want for empty cylinders.

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At the heart of the emerging situation is the more than ten day war in West Asia that has disrupted supplies of propane butane or the combination that makes LPG. With India relying on imports to meet about 50% of its LPG requirements, the government was quick to introduce a slew of measures, from directing the refineries to enhance LPG production to ensure supplies to households, public sector oil companies to restrict supplies to commercial consumers such as restaurants and industries and even increasing the price of non domestic cooking gas refills by ₹60 each.

The three companies, Indian Oil Corporation, BPCL and HPCL, also made changes to their refill booking systems to permit bookings by households with single cylinder connection only after a gap of 21 days from the previous supply. This was enhanced on Monday (March 9, 2026) to 25 days. For households with double bottle connections (DBC) or two cylinders, a fresh booking is accepted only after a gap of 30 days.

Commercial cylinders are not being refilled at most of the bottling plants amid the focus on maintaining supplies to households, sources say, adding there may be some relaxation in the face of red flags raised by the users, especially restaurants. The government has also constituted a committee comprising a senior level executive of each OMC to look into the issues raised.