Vol. 6 | Issue 8 | November 2012
...by the way
High connections
The
new gas connection policy of Ministry of Petroleum has come as a boon
for gas agency owners to mint money. The cylinders are on sale but one
has to pay a hefty premium in Delhi if household quota exceeds the
limits. As per estimates, there are 200 gas agencies in Delhi and all
are politically well connected as in old days the gas agencies were only
allotted to political beneficiaries. One needs guts to take them to
task. The State Government’s Department of Food and Civil Supplies
(DFCS) looks after the supply. The Department was conscious about the
situation but due to political connections of agency owners, they
remained quiet observers so far. But when newspapers reported the
black-marketeering of the cylinders, DFCS took cognizance and raided the
agencies and godowns and made arrests under the Essential Service
Maintenance Act (ESMA)............READ MORE
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