Incentives on cards to increase LPG cover in remote, inaccessible areas

The petroleum and natural gas ministry is planning to introduce incentives and ease the application process to enable more liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distributorships in remote and inaccessible areas.

These areas include the middle Himalayas, parts of North-East and the forests of Chhattisgarh and Odisha. The government classifies any place where either Gramin or Rurban LPG distributorship can’t be set up as Difficult and Special Areas or Durgam Kshetriya.
 

This includes hilly regions, forests, tribal inhabited areas, sparsely-populated places, disturbed areas, islands and Left Wing extremism (LWE)-affected areas.
 

The number of distributorships in difficult areas stood at 2,012 as on