India’s under recovery from selling LPG to domestic consumers below market rate has risen to around ₹700 per 14.2 kg cylinder currently from roughly ₹650 per cylinder last month.Sujata Sharma, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoPNG), said, “As far as the under recovery on LPG domestic cooking cylinder is concerned, it is still in the range of almost ₹700.”She emphasied that the government has taken several steps to ensure adequate LPG availability, including increasing domestic production and securing imports.“One of the most important steps that has been taken, apart from tying up imports, is the domestic stepping up of the LPG production. If I give you the data from yesterday (Wednesday), then around 54,000 tonnes of LPG was evacuated from different sources within the country,” the official added.On Monday, Sharma had informed that under recoveries of the PSU oil marketing companies (OMCs) were around ₹650 per 14.2 kg domestic cylinder.The current demand for the critical cooking fuel, which is used by more than 33 crore households, is around 72,000 tonnes per day (TPD), lower than the normal demand of around 80,000 TPD, as LPG consumption generally declines during summer.Sharma attributed the moderation in LPG demand to lower consumption by commercial and industrial users, improved booking cycles, technology-led delivery authentication, among other factors.“There has been a reduction because of our commercial and industrial LPG. The other reason is that the booking period we managed, I mean 25 days and 45 days. The third reason is the Delivery Authentication Code linked deliveries,” she added.In the last 3 days, about 1.43 crore LPG cylinders were delivered against bookings of around 1.50 crore LPG cylinders.Besides, to check hoarding and black marketing of LPG cylinders, 4 FIRs have been registered during the last 3 days. Similarly, inspections at about 680 LPG distributorships have been conducted in the last three days. Penalties have been imposed on 6 LPG distributorships, and 2 LPG distributorships have been put under suspension.Published on June 4, 2026