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| Valley residents feel heat while filling forms for availing subsidy on gas connections | | | Shakeel A Khan
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 29: With no respite for the people of valley in the aftermath of floods, the registration process of the Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) connections is proving yet another test to their patience. Brokers have also become active and are acting as the stumbling blocks between customers and gas agencies.
The people of the valley are facing the complex situation with regard to the availing of the subsidy on the cooking gas. To get the forms from the gas agencies and to open the new accounts has become a challenging issue for the customers. People, from children to old could be seen waiting in long queues outside the bank branches and offices of the gas agencies even in the biting cold.
"It is a very painful exercise that has subjected the common masses to tremendous inconvenience. The brokers have all of a sudden become active, who are looting the customers as per the past, practice with a promise that they will complete all the formalities themselves which actually they never did," said Abdul Mateen.
People say that there is the shortage of the man power in the banks which delays the process of registration. People believe that there is already a lot of work on the hand of the bank employees. As a matter of fact, the employees find it very hard to come to the expectations of the customers and with the result, the opening of the new accounts becomes a time consuming process, say the people.
"If the process of opening of the bank accounts goes on at such a slow pace, then the time of even two years is insufficient for the customers to complete the formalities. It would have been better if the government facilitates the distribution of gas cylinders at the at the food and supplies depots," said Syed Maqsood Ahmad from Budgam.
He said that even the people who stand registered with the gas agencies are also required to get themselves registered afresh.
At least these already registered people should have been exempted from this process but instead they are being dragged out from the houses only as a means of punishment for them, Maqsood went on saying.
Jagmohan Singh Raina, Proprietor Kashmir Gas Agency said that formalities required for the registration of gas connections is in the benefit of the customers to avail the subsidy. Raina said that subsidy amount to the tune of Rs. 44,000 crores would go directly into the account of the deserving. As per him another aim of this process is to end the misuse of the cooking gas.
"It is not in the hands of the gas agencies to set time for the completion of the process. The oil companies are pressing hard to get the formalities completed at the earliest so that the transfer of the subsidy into the accounts of the registered customers is done without any further delay," said Raina. |
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