Requested Indane to Educate the consumers about :

EXPIRED GAS CYLLINDERS :

First of all, we expect a clarification about the EXPIRED CYLLINDERS. Much is being said about the expiry date of LPG Gas Cyllinders. Even we uploaded it in our Blog. We found three Expired gas cyllinders in our street. The news was also published in the AMAR UJALA. Please explain us about the EXPIRED CYLLINDERS. If any of these cyllinders are exploaded, and the consumer suffers the loss of life or property, who will be responsible ? How a consumer can prove that the cyllinder was an Expired one after it is exploaded.

NON PICKING OF TELEPHONES :

Secondly, please try any of the gas dealers for the booking of a Gas cyllinder and there is more than 100% possibility that continuously for many hours, it will be engaged or none will pick it up. Why dont these dealers keep more than one working phone. Is there any norms in this regard. In our opinion, these dealers try to avoid phones to skip the booking and to sell it in the grey market.

20 DAYS GAP BETWEEN BOOKING OF SECOND CYLLINDER :

Lastly, The dealers ask for a 20 days gap in between the booking of second cyllinder. As per RTI, the Gas companys have denied about any such gap period. Than why these dealers are still continuing this practice. How long they will harrass the consumers.

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No time bar for taking a second refill cylinder

Most of Gas distributors do not book the cylinder before a periodd of say more than n 20 days after the cylinder has been supplied. But there is no such bar. Through a RTI Application I have confirmed from the Oil Companies. as details below.

On 14th Nov.2009 I filed a RTI Application with Various Oil Companies to which I have received following reply:

Q:-Copy of rules for refilling of Gas Cylinder both for domestic & Commercial specifying the time gap between receipt of filled up Gas Cylinder and Re-booking of refill.

INDIA OIL COPORATION LTD Sector 19 A Chandigarh through PIO cum-Dy. Gen Manager (LPG) vide Letter NO.PSO/LPG/RTI dated 16th Dec.2009 informed as under :

Refill can be booked as and when required by a customer to meet his/her genuine requirement of LPG for domestic cooking purpose. No time gap has been specified between the date of supply of a domestic LPG cylinder and the date for booking of the next refill. The same is also true for commercial LPG supplies

HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED lpg Regional Office at Rohtak Road Jind-126012 through Chief Regional Manager cum CPIO Jind LPG RO Letter NO.LPG/SM/RTI dated 12.12.2009 informed as under :

There is no time bar taking refill cylinder. However it should be used for Domestic cooking by genuine domestic customer. There is no time bar for Non Domestic refill.

R K Garg

Submitted by : Mr. Ajith via Mr. Rejimon ; with thanks : source : http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/40223-no-time-bar-refill-gas-cylinder.html

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Expired Gas Cyllinder's being supplied by Gas company's

Any medicine or food products if consumed after the expiry date, can be dangerous for the health. Similarly, if the gas cyllinder in your kitchen has an expiry date & if we use a cyllinder which had officially expired an year ago, don't you think that it can be dangerous for you.

To our surprise, when we tried to check various kitchens, in just 15 minutes we located TWO GAS Cyllinders with dates of B - 08 & D - 08. Means the first cyllinder was expired in June 2008 & the second cyllinder was expired in December 2008. But these are still being refilled by the gas company's & supplied to the consumers.

If a gas cyllinder as above, exploades, and any harm is suffered by the consumers, they won't be able to prove as the blasted cyllinder won't exhibit the expiry date & the Gas company can very easily say that it happened due to the negligence of the consumers.

Jago Grahak Jago.

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Do you know the Gas cyllinder in your kitchen has an expiry date ?

Do you know the Gas cyllinder in your kitchen has an expiry date ?

Yes, it's true.

It's written in the inner side of the top portion. The 12 months of an year are divided into four parts, as below :

Jan, Feb, March stand for A
Apr, May, June stand for B
Jul, Aug, Sept. stand for C
Oct, Nov, Dec. stand for D

If the cyllinder has the marking c-12. It means that the expiry date of the cyllinder is Maximum September of 2012.

Similarly, if the cyllinder has the marking A 09. It means that the expiry date of the cyllinder was maximum March 2009.

Therefore, while taking a gas cyllinder from any gas company, we must check the expiry date and act accordingly. Otherwise, the expired filled cyllinder can be very dangerous as in case of expired medicines or expired food products. It means the cyllinder is no more capable of holding the pressure of the gas filled and can expload.

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