Corona and
lockdown has changed lives of many people ~ now many Gents who had hitherto had
never lit their stove, do some cooking, cleaning of vegetables, cutting them
and preparing food too !! ~ this is an
important post – for from 1.11.2020, the Telephone number
for booking refill of gas cylinders has changed.
There is one eternal
negativist in social media who would cry hoarse trying to mislead people
stating that LPG cylinder is more than
Rs.1000/- - I posted on his FB page with diligent proof that it is not so ~ unable to digest the reality, he put an
acerbic comment on my looks ! and more so, on my Srivaishnava mark .. that is
his calibre ! : TWO certain lies :
1) the price that he tries to put would
never take in to account the subsidy that he enjoys 2) the price at Chennai for
the past 1 year has never touched that figure even
Half a
century ago, there were less than a handful of houses which had a gas
connection – cooking was done in kerosene stoves and kerosene was the most
sought after commodity. Housewives were
afraid of pressure cookers too.. there were lot of jokes of wives forgetting
the close the gas stoves, coming to see movies and calling back their nearby
homes (no mobiles those days and owning a telephone was aristocratic) to check whether they have switched the stove
off – remember that there would be slides in Cinema theatres urging the people
to ensure that they switch off the gas stoves immediately once the cooking is
over…..
The red
cylinder containing LPG is a prized possession for households and there is
always concern as to how many days the connection would last and whether refill
would be readily available. Now a days, most households have double cylinders
and some have multiple connection too… still, people of worried of regular
supply. The distributor is a very
important person and the arrival of gas delivery boy is heralded with
happiness. Do you know the rate of a gas
cylinder ?? for all of us who
have a domestic LPG cylinder –– the biggest worry in earlier times was :
• When will I get the refill ?
• How many times will I have to go the
distributor
• Am I getting a cylinder which was
clandestinely used in a hotel or some other eatery elsewhere
All of them have vanished ! ~
the biggest advantage now in present times :
o Ease of booking [tele call / sms / web
/ visit too !]
o Transparency
in booking and availability (actually there has been no shortage at all in
recent years)
o Up dates on billing / availability /
release / delivery
o Fraud control mechanism preventing
misuse of domestic cylinders
LPG – liquefied petroleum
gas, is mostly a mixture of propane and butane.
Propane is a three-carbon alkane, normally a gas, but compressible to a
transportable liquid. It may also
contain small amounts of propylene and/or butylene. An odorant such as
ethanethiol or thiophene is added so that people can easily smell the gas in
case of a leak.
In case you
do not know – the price of 14.2 Kg LPG cylinder – the one that we use at home
is Rs.610.42.
For many years
there was subsidy being credited to the SB account of the user – at the request
of honourable Prime Minister, many of us gave up the subsidy and me too did in
the month the request was announced. Due
to Covid-19 pandemic, the government is providing three free LPG cylinders to
all below poverty line families who are subscribers of cooking gas under
Ujjwala scheme. But other customers are now paying full amount for the cylinder
without getting any subsidy support from the government. The
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana provides free cooking gas connections to families
living below the poverty line. The aim
of the scheme is to provide clean cooking fuel to every poor household,
especially in rural areas, where household air pollution from traditional
cooking fuels like wood and coal is a major health hazard. Connections are
given in the name of the adult woman in the house.
Now the subject matter of the post ..
.. .. Gas Booking Number change.
Effective 1 November 2020, the Indane Gas booking number
stands changed. Indian Oil has proposed one common number for Indane LPG
(Liquefied petroleum gas) refill booking across the country for customer
convenience. To book a gas cylinder you now have to call 7718955555. This service is available
24×7 for the customers.
According to
a press release issued by Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, “The current
system of telecom circle-specific phone numbers for booking Indane LPG refills
will be discontinued after 31.10.2020 midnight and the common booking number
for LPG refills i.e. 7718955555, will be in force.” Notably, Indane LPG booking can be done using
the customer’s REGISTERED MOBILE NUMBER only.
The revised
process of LPG refill booking and mobile number registration is as follows:
a. If the customer’s number is already
registered in Indane records, IVRS will prompt the 16-digit consumer ID. Please
note that this 16-digit consumer ID is mentioned on the customer’s Indane LPG
invoices / cash memos / subscription voucher. Upon confirmation by the
customer, the refill booking will be accepted.
b. If the customer’s mobile number is not
available in Indane records, then one-time registration of the mobile number
should be done by customers by entering their 16-digit consumer ID starting
with 7. This should be followed by authentication in the same IVRS call. Upon
confirmation, the customer’s mobile number will get registered and the LPG
refill booking will be accepted. This 16-digit consumer ID of the customer is mentioned
on Indane LPG invoices/ cash memos / subscription voucher.
• The new
IVRS (Interactive Voice Response System) number has been configured to serve
Indane customers across India.
• One can
apply for an LPG refill booking either through SMS or IVRS.
• Indane LPG
booking can only be done using your registered mobile number.
• When the
refill cylinder arrives at your home, you will be required to furnish the One
Time Password (OTP) to the delivery agent.
In Sept. 2012, the
Government announced restriction of the
supply of subsidised cooking gas to 6 cylinders per household in a year to
fetch an additional Rs 20,300 crore. The
CCPA decided that each household will get 6 cylinders of 14.2-kg per annum at
the subsidised rate and any requirement beyond that would have to be procured
at the market rate. Modiji went a step
ahead – linked Bank Account with Gas account and Aadhar – whilst critics were
busy commenting that this would never become a reality – within a few months, people forgot that they were getting gas cylinders at a
lower rate. They starting paying the
full value and got credited to their
Bank Account the subsidy value instantaneously, eliminating most frauds that
prevailed erstwhile in gas cylinder
distribution.
Happy customer**
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
9th Nov. 2020.
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