AGARTALA, July 13 (TIWN): On the one hand LPG bullets are unable to enter state due to the deplorable condition of National Highway, on the other hand the increasing black marketing of LPG has hit the customers.

Reportedly, few bullets although entered in state but there are no respite from the long-queues before LPG booking centers.

With the negligence of the state Govt. over the chain of black marketing, cooking gas has become hard to manage for the common people here.

Taking advantage of the loose law & enforcement, a large number of food stalls and factories freely use the cylinders meant for domestic use.

Such cylinder are purchased from the black market as authorities have failed to check the illegal practice.

Black marketers of domestic cooking gas cylinders seem to have devised new ways to carry out their activities, despite the introduction of the modified direct benefit transfer scheme for LPG.

A resentment prevails between the deliverymen and customers, but the govt. is not taking the main initiative which was to be taken. Negligence has hit the state’s common public.

People staying in resettlement colonies sell their cylinders to deliverymen, who in turn, sell it in the black market. The racket became evident after this correspondent talked to some deliverymen and LPG distributors in the city. 

In black market the rate has gone to 1,200-1500.

The distributor said black marketing can be stopped through enforcement, but Govt.’s focus yet to reach on that ground. 

The Union government introduced the direct benefit transfer scheme (PAHAL scheme) with a hope to check black marketing. But the channel between unscrupulous customers and delivery men continues in state.