LPG customer base dips after a decade

India's LPG customer base has contracted for the first time in over a decade, shrinking by 6.2 million households between April and August, according to The Economic Times. The decline is attributed to supply constraints caused by the Iran war, which halted fresh connections and led oil companies to streamline existing ones. The customer base under the Ujjwala scheme for poor households also fell by 0.6 million to 105.7 million.

The Iran war has constrained LPG supplies from the Gulf region, which before the war supplied about 90% of India's imports. Oil marketing companies stopped giving fresh LPG connections, and the government has been pushing LPG customers in areas with access to PNG infrastructure to switch to natural gas.

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