Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) prices have been increased by Rs 3 to Rs 5 per kg, or Rs 30 to Rs 50 per 11.8 kg cylinder and Rs 115 to Rs 230 for 45.4 kg cylinder by local marketing companies.

LPG Distributors Association Pakistan Chairman Abdul Hadi Khan said that due to lack of government concern, the production of LPG has been reduced by 500 tons per day and some conspirators have planned to link its price with Saudi Aramco contract price.

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New Delhi: After six intensive raids in the past four months and 217 prosecutions, the weights and measures department finds that LPG continues to be stolen and siphoned off from domestic cylinders into the black market.

To help clear the city's air of pollution, especially on account of emissions from auto-rickshaws, the state government has mooted a proposal for the replacement of all diesel-run auto-rickshaws. The proposal at present is still being discussed.

Auto rickshaws, if the proposal materialises at all, will henceforth run either on compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).

: The LPG Association of Pakistan (LPGAP) has suspended 32 percent of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) supplies to Lahore to protest against the city government's takeover of LPG filling plants situated in the city.

The City District Government Lahore (CDGL) and the LPG Distributors Association (LPGDA) on Friday sorted out the LPG price issue and fixed the retail rate at Rs 63 per kilogramme and Rs 743 per 11.8-kilogramme cylinder. District Co-ordination Officer Sajjad Bhutta taking action on rickshaw union's application had convened a meeting of stakeholders to discuss the price issue.

Prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) on Monday shot up by Rs 2 per kg, Rs 20 per 11.8 kg cylinder and Rs 78 per 45.4 kg cylinder in the local markets of Sindh and NWFP traders said. After a fresh increase, LPG is available at Rs 66 per kg, Rs 710-720 per 11.8-kg cylinder and Rs 2750 per 45.4-kg cylinder in the province.

JAYANTA BASU A smoke-belching three-wheeler on a city road Calcutta's air will continue to be polluted by the exhaust of old autorickshaws running on adulterated fuel with the government putting the brakes on the conversion of two-stroke three-wheelers to LPG. After advocating conversion for five years, the government found "demerits' in the process. It has adopted a two-pronged strategy of replacing old two-stroke autos with four-stroke ones and penalising the thousands of illegal three-wheelers.

THE Indian economy has been at tipping point for some time now, poised to enter a period characterised by slow growth and high inflation. The government's decision to hike the prices of petrol, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) could well be the final push. In the government's view the hike was inevitable, given the sharp increase in the international prices of crude and India's dependence on imports to meet much of its consumption. If the hike came only when it did, it was because electoral compulsions and the opposition forced the government to hold back.

): With the imposition of petroleum development levy (PDL) on LPG its end-consumer prices are set to increase by up to Rs 3 per kg. A spokesman of the LPG Association of Pakistan (LPGAP), a grouping of all LPG marketing companies, Fasih Ahmed, said here on Monday.