Mangalore: The LPG home consumers have to wait a day more now, with their status verification and gas connection linked to the same RR number to eliminate bogus cases, from July 29 onwards.
Since Friday lat (July 22) upto Wednesday (July 27) the Civil Supplies dept. had received 3412 applications seeking updating of their status on LPG connection.
7,847 other consumers during that period applied online (website) of which 120 and 100 manually received were completed in verification at 8 special counters. Any delay in local inspections was due to other pre-occupations, said Dy. Director Sharanabasappa. Food inspectors’ teams would start process of local inspection, from Friday now.
The DK dt. Has 3,25,977 LPG connections of which 1,21,500 were suspended as faulty. 1,90,160 LPG links matched with registration numbers (RR). Those with more than one LPG connection to be verified are 14,435 the Dy.Dr, added. Those cases with verification due for LPG will not be suspended by Oil Companies under order.