Cong demands State Govt to revoke speedy LPG verification process

Mangalore, July 27: Criticising the State Government's verification process for LPG connection, Ivan D'Souza, Secretary of KPCC, said that it was 'unpardonable offence' to make helpless women to run pillar to post to get their connection status verified within a short period of time.

Addressing the media persons at district Congress office here on Wednesday, Mr D'Souza said that Central government had generously given subsidy for LPG. It was responsible of State Government to supply the same to the people without flaws.

He said, “If the state government wanted to eliminate illegal usage of subsided LPG for the commercial purposes in the hotels and vehicles, let them ride those hotels and vehicles instead of giving mental torture to the people.”

If there were illegal connections or misfeeds in the documents it is fault of the department, he said.

Mr D'Souza pointed out that people who reside at flats couldn't get their RR numbers as their owners have already used it.

He also said that the consumers never using the subsided LPG for other purposes than cooking. “We are with the 1, 21,678 Mangaloreans, who are facing the difficulties to get their status verified,” he said.

Expressing dissatisfaction over the department officials' instruction the consumers asking to feed the documents directly to the department website, he questioned: “How many people have internet facility at home? Should people go to cyber cafes paying money?”

Novel Protest

The district congress will stage a novel protest in front of Deputy Commissioner's office demanding to revoke this 'anti-people' policy by cooking food with the firewood on Friday, said Mr D'Souza.

Memorandum

Meanwhile, Congress MLAs U T Khader and Gopal Bhandary have submitted a memorandum to State Energy and Food and Civil Supplies Minister Shobha Karandlaje seeking new rules and regulation for LPG connections. Compulsory submission of documents within short span of time causing inconvenience to the people, MLAs informed. “Government order or any scheme should help the people instead of causing problem,” they said.