Coronavirus outbreak: Few takers for free LPG cylinders in lockdown

Oil-marketing companies have managed to distribute around 68 mill­i­on cooking gas cylinders, as part of the scheme to distribute three free cylind­ers to 80.3 million families in three months. 

Assuming that each of these 68 million cylinders has gone against one connection, the lockdown relief from the government could not reach 12.3 million families with Ujjwala connections. 

According to industry experts, since free cylinders will be available only for three months from April to June, it is unlikely to benefit users optimally, unless the relief gets extended till March 2021. Going by three free 14.2-kg cylinder for one beneficiary, 240.9