In a significant relief for Meghalaya’s tourism and hospitality sector grappling with shortages, the Centre has enhanced commercial LPG allocation to 70 percent of the regular quota for all States, even as authorities in the State Food and Civil Supply department asserted that domestic supply remains unaffected.
Addressing the prevailing situation, Saloni Verma, Deputy Secretary in the Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs Department, said, “This is just to bring you all regarding the LPG situation in the state at present in Meghalaya, so simply put as per government of India’s directives from 11th March 2026, there has been a certain cap on commercial LPG Supply.”
Clarifying apprehensions surrounding household consumption, she stated, “So I would like to make you clear that as for domestic LPG, which is household LPG consumption, there is no such cap from the government of India. As such the efforts are by the state government, Central government and the oil marketing companies to ensure that domestic LPG Supply is not disrupted at all.”
Providing data to underline the claim, she added, “Pre-crisis which is before 11th March 2026, our average daily LPG cylinder requirement domestic was around 6000 to 7000 cylinders daily. After the crisis began that is from 11th March onwards, officially as we call it, we can see as per the numbers that are there with us that on an average five thousand to seven thousand cylinders are being delivered daily to domestic LPG consumers.”
She acknowledged reports of queues at distribution points but attributed them to procedural compliance rather than supply shortages. “Having said that yes, we are aware that sometimes there are lines in front of depots and distributor shops, but there are two main reasons for that… That is why you see these lines because people have been rushing to these distributed shops with their documents to do eKYC… There is no disruption in the domestic LPG Supply,” she said.
On commercial LPG, however, the official confirmed that the State had faced constraints following the Centre’s earlier directive limiting supplies due to global disruptions. “Now, what the government of India had to do because given that the Middle East war-like situation, which is happening and there was a certain disruption in supplies since at that time, India was getting its Imports of LGP from the Middle East,” she said.
Detailing the impact, she added, “So, seeing that the government of India imposed the cap for all states, that all states will only get 20 of their commercial LPG allocation daily… What that means is out of thousand which is Meghalaya’s daily commercial need, We were getting 200 Commercial cylinders.”
Highlighting prioritisation norms, she noted, “As per government of India, it was mandatory that hospitals and educational institutions still get there 100 percent… As a result, there was definitely a shortage for restaurants and dhaba owners and that is something that the government is cognizant of, unfortunately, this was a pan India situation.”
Following sustained representations from the State, the Centre has now relaxed the cap. “So as a result of continuous back and forth continuous negotiation… They have been increasing the commercial LPG Supply. So, as of today, the commercial LPG allocation is now enhanced to 70 percent of regular quota for all states,” she said.
She expressed optimism that the revised allocation would stabilise supplies. “Now that we are entitled to 70 percent, definitely the situation will get better for our tourism operators, for our restaurants and dhaba owners, for our hotels.”
Citing recent trends, she said, “So for commercial, I can tell you from 11th March onwards, I have to figures, we were getting an average of 200 to 250 cylinders per day… but in the last few days from 25 to 27th March, we have been getting around 300 to 350 cylinders… for the past three days, I’m being told that around 400 commercial cylinders per day has received.”
With the revised allocation expected to take effect shortly, she added, “We are hoping that with time this allocation Now that letter is also come for 70 percent allocation, it takes to three days for these letters to be effective. So it will go up.”
Appealing for public cooperation, she said, “I would just like to request through your medium to everybody to please refrain from panicking, to please refrain from spreading misinformation,” adding that monitoring mechanisms are in place through district and State-level LPG committees to closely track the situation.
Centre Raises Commercial LPG Allocation to 70% Quota; Meghalaya Assures Uninterrupted Domestic Supply
