Puri says petrol pumps across India have no dry-out
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said there was no fuel shortage at India’s 1.07 lakh retail petrol pumps. His comments, reported by NDTV, came in response to questions about LPG supply and what he described as the spread of false rumours.
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said there was no dry-out at any of India’s 1.07 lakh retail petrol pumps, NDTV reported. Puri made the statement in response to a question about LPG supply. He also criticised what he described as the spreading of false rumours.
The minister’s claim concerned the availability of fuel across the country’s retail petrol-pump network. The available source material did not provide separate figures for LPG stocks, deliveries or consumption. It also did not identify the rumours to which Puri referred, give a time frame for his assessment, or include an independent confirmation of fuel availability.
The report did not say whether supply conditions differed between regions.
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