Following its commitment to provide clean fuel to all households in the country specifically the rural and difficult areas, the ministry of petroleum and natural gas (MoPNG) has issued new guidelines for selection of LPG distributorships after a comprehensive review of the existing distributorship selection policies.
The government is focusing on making the LPG distributorship more broad based, participative and transparent, with the objective to strengthen the LPG supply chain.
Following are the new guidelines unveiled by the union minister of state petroleum and natural gas .
- Four broad types of distributorships with varying refill ceiling limits- Sheheri, Rurban, Gramin and Durgam Vitrak.
- Eligibility norms for age, education, fund requirement and ownership of land for godown & showroom have been relaxed to make selection process more participative.
- 33 % reservation to women across all categories has been introduced to encourage women entrepreneurship. 3% reservation for Divyang candidates.
- As a part of Government’s Digital India campaign, Online filing, processing and selection has been introduced for Sheheri distributorships on a pilot basis.
- To take care of interest of Defence personnel and their dependents, inter-se priority in selection under Government Personnel category has been introduced.
- Monetary norms for security deposit have been relaxed for the selected candidates belonging to SC/ST and OBCs.
LPG suvidha Kendra facility will be introduced for improving delivery of services to solve the issue of last mile reach of LPG in difficult areas and LPG distributorships would be set up in active collaboration with the State Government agencies to strengthen the supply chain in Durgam areas.
Providing clean fuel to rural areas will also lay a positive impact on environment as in most of these areas, traditional cooking methods are followed, providing them clean fuel will help reducing the burden of harmful gases in environment.
News Source: PIB | Factly
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