With LPG shortage hitting day-to-day life in India, data suggest while the nation opted for a dramatic surge in LPG use, especially among poor households, driven by imports, there was no plan to boost long-term, strategic LPG reserves in parallel. Surge in domestic gasIEA figures show India’s LPG imports increased threefold from 2011-12 to 2024-25 to some 20 million tonne. India’s total LPG consumption a month is some 3 million tonne making it the second-largest consumer of LPG in the world. In terms of long-term storage, India has two underground caverns for LPG – Mangaluru and Visakhapatnam with a total storage capacity of 1.4 lakh tonne. The surge in Indian LPG consumption as well as import dependency is attributed to this scheme.
