 "Empty Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders are seen at a gas distribution centre at Dujana village in Noida (Photo: Reuters)")
The government is taking its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distribution to tiger reserves in order to meet its goal of providing cooking gas to 95 per cent of the population by 2020.
In a first move of this kind, the directors of three tiger reserves — Bor, Tadoba, and Nagzira, all in Maharashtra — will be distributing LPG cylinders. In a similar move, about 98 agricultural and other government co-operative societies in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands will get dealerships.
Soon, state forest departments may get LPG dealerships on a nomination basis.
“Traditionally, LPG dealership is not
