Overview

• PNGRB issued a public notice on September 28 proposing an LPG Interoperability Framework and invited stakeholder comments by mid-October.
• The plan would allow temporary refills from the nearest distributor regardless of company during disruptions and enable permanent migration without replacing equipment.
• The regulator cites over 32 crore LPG connections alongside more than 17 lakh consumer grievances annually as justification for the proposal.
• Recent reports of supply disruptions and weeks-long refill delays in some regions prompted a continuity-focused response.
• A 2013–14 portability effort let users switch only between dealers of the same company due to legal limits, while the new proposal is framed as inter-company portability similar to mobile number portability.