Shri
Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Petroleum and
Natural Gas in Mumbai yesterday launched online payment facility of cylinder at
the time of booking. Earlier this month, the Minister had dedicated the year
2016 as the “Year of the Consumers” and in keeping
with this objective, the initiative will go a long way to provide comfort and
convenience to the LPG consumers.
As there has
been increase in the number of people using the Internet and Mobile gadgets,
the PSU Oil Marketing companies (OMCs), namely Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.,
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.,
have taken up a series of technology based consumer centric initiatives keeping
pace with the changing time and preferences of consumers in line with Digital
India Program of Government of India.
The OMCs have successfully
implemented on IVRS, Web and SMS the refill booking facilities, Portability
of Gas connection, PAHAL scheme for LPG subsidy transfer directly to the
bank account of consumers, “Sahaj” Scheme making it possible for consumers to
get new LPG connection online without visiting the distributors showroom. These
can be done through the unified web portal www.mylpg.in
which is available in 13 languages, to facilitate consumers to carry out all
their LPG related activities like booking, tracking, DBTL status, Distributors
performance, porting the gas connection, receipt of subsidy details and much
more.
In continuation of the series of
consumer convenience initiatives, the PSU OMCs have now introduced the online
payment facility for consumers at the time of booking their LPG refill cylinder
so that they need not worry about leaving cash with their family members or
attendants while taking delivery of the cylinder. This facility would bring
great relief to the working couple as well as to senior citizens as they can
make the payment online without bothering to keep adequate cash at home. This
will also eliminate hassles of exact change needed for payment or avoid
delivery failure due to no cash situation.