Port Blair, Sep 13: Mr. D. Ayyappan, Secretary, CPI (M) Andaman and Nicobar State Organising Committee has requested the Secretary (Civil Supplies), A&N Administration to resolve the issue of Shortage of LPG cylinders at Port Blair.
In a letter, he mentioned that there is no respite from the LPG shortage experienced at Port Blair and other areas for the last few weeks. People are found standing in long queues wherever the LPG cylinder vehicles are supplying the cylinders. In some places, hundreds of people are found lined up near the LPG vehicles.
He stated that the A&N Administration and the Indian Oil Corporation did not take the issue seriously to make sufficient quantity of LPG cylinders available in the islands despite the shortage experienced for quite a long time. The present shortage of cylinders is not a sudden phenomenon, it was going on for the last several weeks and the Administration and IOC failed to take effective measures to contain the shortage.
Therefore, Mr. D. Ayyappan requested the Secretary (Civil Supplies), A&N Administration to look into the issue seriously and take immediate effective steps to ensure that the people get the LPG cylinders without any long queue before the LPG vehicles and on demand by the customers. If the shortage of LPG cylinders is not resolved within a week, the CPI (M) will be forced to resort to agitation by organizing the people.
