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Jowar roti feels the LPG pinch

Special Correspondent

Hotels stop making them due to shortage of cooking gas

KURNOOL: Jowar roti, a staple diet of Rayalaseema, has vanished from many restaurants in Kurnool on account of shortage of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG). Tightening of supply of LPG by the companies and restrictions on diversion of domestic LPG for other purposes, forced the restaurant owners to halt roti making.

Nagarjuna Reddy of Ruchi Restaurant, a food corner specialising in ethnic cuisine, said the restaurant stopped selling rotis three months ago due to LPG shortage.

Gas-guzzler

The restaurant used to sell 150 to 200 rotis in two sessions. It used to employ women exclusively to make these rotis. Among all dishes, rotis consume LPG most.

Now, only a few hotels, which use firewood as fuel, serve rotis, that too on a limited scale in the city. The short-supply of LPG has hit households too.

3-tier price system

Consumers complain that requests for refills were honoured only 21 days after delivery and supply took another four to 15 days. Bharat Gas supply within four to seven days after booking while others took 10 to 15 days. According to LPG companies' sources, the Government was planning to introduce three-tier price system for families below poverty line, middle-income families and commercial consumers.

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