Govt bars piped gas users from buying cooking gas cylinders
India's annual consumption of LPG is about 33 million tonnes. The West Asia war and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz have severely hit India's LPG supplies, as about 90% of its cooking gas imports earlier came from West Asia.
Source: Livemint
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