Now cooking gas consumers can book refill on IVRS

In a welcome initiative, the oil marketing companies, HPCL, BPCL and IOCL have launched Interactive Voice Response Service (IVRS) for their consumers enabling them to book refill domestic gas cylinders through this service.
The HPCL consumers can now call on 9086023456 and BPCL consumers on 9419256789 to book their refill cooking gas cylinders through IVRS.
Deputy Director Legal Meteorology Kashmir said: “The consumers who have completed the formalities of Director Benefit Transfer of LPG and submitted form-4 with their respective gas agency dealer could call for refill through cell phone or landline number mentioned by them in form-4.”
He said the call made through numbers other than mentioned in the form-4 shall not be responded.
He said the actual price of refill is Rs 435 but the consumers have to pay Rs 802.50 at the time of delivery. “72 hours after they get the delivery an amount of Rs 367.50 on account of subsidy would be credited to the consumer’s bank accounts mentioned in form-4,” he explained.
To mention, government of India earlier launched Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG (DBTL) scheme.
Each household is entitled to get 12 subsidized cylinders a year. So those who have already exhausted the quota will not be get any subsidy this year.
This scheme was implemented in 54 districts as a pilot project and now after positive response it will be implemented in rest of India on January 1, 2015. Post implementation of this scheme India’s LPG subsidy burden of Rs 48,000 crore is expected to come down by 15 per cent.
DBTL scheme was launched in J&K from January 1.
Under this scheme consumers who do not have Aadhaar number, can receive cash directly in their bank account without producing Aadhaar. However, as and when they get Aadhaar they need to shift to Aadhaar based cash transfer.
From January 1, consumers who are not registered will get a three month grace period during which they would receive the cylinders at subsidized rate. After this, they will get an additional three month as parking period during which they will have to buy cylinders at the market rate. If the consumer joins the scheme within the parking period, the subsidy as per entitlement and consumption during parking period will be transferred to the bank account.
Bharat Petroleum, Indian Oil and Hindustan Petroleum have urged all LPG customers to immediately join the scheme and the dealers have been asked to help customers in case of need.