Big Update for LPG Customers! Domestic LPG Cylinders to Come with QR Code Soon

The code-based track and trace project will help to address issues related to theft, scams, and will better manage the cylinder inventories.

Fueling Traceability! The petroleum minister announced the remarkable innovation in a video posted to his Twitter account. "This QR Code will be pasted on existing cylinders and welded on new ones. When activated, it has the potential to resolve several existing issues of pilferage, tracking & tracing, and better inventory management of gas cylinders.”

In the video, which is from the World LPG Week 2022 event taking place in Uttar Pradesh, Puri interacts with officials and asks about the viability of the concept. The machine-readable optical labels known as QR (Quick Response) codes are a digital solution that contains information about the object they are attached to.

20,000 of the first batch of LPG were said to have received the code, and all 14.2 kg household cylinders will have them in the coming months. In an effort to improve customer service, the program is expected to address difficulties with theft, provide security for cylinders, have information on their safety tests, and have information on where it was bottled, among other things.

At the event, Puri spoke about the need for access to inexpensive, clean energy, stating that supporting innovations in the LPG energy mix, efficiency, conservation, bio-LPG, synthetic LPG, etc., would promote positive growth and advance efforts to fight climate change.

The minister added, prior to the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), rural households in the nation faced a significant issue due to the lack of clean cooking fuel supply.

Providing benefits to more than 9.55 crore households in India, he said, "the PMUY plan has become a global role model for India's success story in ensuring energy access, justice, and while fulfilling climate change and women empowerment goals."