Tripura gas agencies indulging in brazen corruption in the name of e-KYC , customers suffer but government silent

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, July 3, 2026

The private gas agencies of Tripura dealing in LPG cylinders has started indulging in gross corruption and minting money by illegally selling surplus stock to touts and peddlers outside. Even as genuine and registered customers are being deliberately deprived of their LPG quota the notoriously corrupt and inscrupulous gas dealers have been selling their surplus stock outside at the cost of genuine and registered customers.

Giving details of the massive scam , a deprived and aged customer said that on June 25 the union ministry of petroleum and gas had issued a notification directing valid and registered customers to submit e-KYC for enjoying the benefits of government subsidy on the supply of LPG cylinders. The e-KYC can be submitted through mobile apps. But the circular of the union ministry also exempted the gas consumers who do not enjoy the subsidy as well as those who are beneficiaries of Újjwala’ scheme.

But taking advantage of the unon ministry’s circular the corrupt gas agencies of Tripura numbering at least 50 have started insisting on submission of e-KYC by all the customers including those who are exempted. A deprived customer said that there are many who are of advanced age or physically infirm and they have their gas cylinders collected by rickshaw, auto-rickshaw or other vehicles through emissairies and they are now facing a great trouble as the half-educated and corrupt gas agency owners are not releasing LPG cylinders to those who are exempted from submission of e-KYC. These corrupt gas agency owners are doing this only to hold back the cylinders meant for customers to sell them at higher prices to black-marketeers and touts. Neither the Indian Oil authority nor the food department of the state government is cognizant of the problem even as genuine and registered customers continue to suffer and corruption goes on unhindered . Many deprived customers are now seeking urgent intervention of the state government in the matter .

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