LPG sales have jumped by 9.8% in fiscal year 2016-17 after the government gave a record number of cooking gas connections, most of them to poor households, under PMUY. Public sector fuel retailers sold 18.9 million tons of packed domestic LPG -- the fuel that is sold to consumers in cylinders. As per a senior oil ministry official, packed LPG growth in 2015-16 was 7.1%.
As many as 111.3 crore cylinders were sold in 2016-17. About 3.32 crore new domestic LPG connections were issued during the fiscal year ended March 31, including two crore under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY).
India consumed 5.2 per cent more petroleum products like petrol, diesel, LPG and jet fuel, in 2016-17 at 194.2 million tons.