LPG consumers happy, as KYC deadline extended

LPG consumers happy, as KYC deadline extended

Yash Khajuria

JAMMU, Oct 31: The extension in deadline to submit ‘Know Your Customer’ KYC form by the Government have offered a bit respite for those consumers who failed to submit the KYC form to get subsidized cylinder by Oct 31 as they have been offered 15 more days to complete the process.

Simran Khajuria a housewife with a relief on her face ahs said the sudden change in rules ahead of festival season had given headache to homemakers and government officials, because we were short in time to submit the KYC due to our job schedule, even after two days leave I had taken from the office to complete the formalities but could not got it done due to resistible chaos at the distribution centre, now this extension in the deadline have made it more convenient for service bearers.

Following the unmanageable rush for filling up the forms which is mandatory to get the quota of six subsidized LPG cylinders in a year, the government has extended the deadline till Nov 15 and now consumers in the state have supplementary time to give all the necessary details like Name, Date of birth, Father’s Name, Mother’s Name Spouse name, Complete address of their respective residence with pin-code and other details in self attested photo copies of each, said an official of LPG Distribution centre at Gandhi Nagar.

He said that all domestic cooking gas users don't need to submit the KYC form. “Multiple families staying at a single address (may be on rent), siblings sharing parental property but with different connections, need to submit KYC. Several families staying in the same apartment need not worry about duplication of address. As many of the official got transferred to the winter capital and those seeking re-activation of their blocked connection only need to submit the KYC,” he added.

Although, regarding issue to increase the LPG subsidy cap for consumers of the State, when contacted to the Director CAPD he said that the minister for CAPD Qamar Ali Akhoon is already in Delhi and he has scheduled a meeting with the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas veerappa moily and he is likely to discuss the issue out there. However, the minister for CAPD- Qamar Ali Akhoon could not be contacted despite several attempts.