Gas agencies implementing its own agendas in KYC form, complains CRF

The Citizen Right Forum (CRF) today submitted a memorandum to the Sub Divisional Officer, LN Sherpa complaining about the confusion regarding the filling up of KYC form related to gas cylinders and against the agendas of the gas agencies.Despite of the notice given by the Indian Oil Company in July to the gas agencies directing that the forms should be filled by October 31, the gas agencies at the last moment are informing the public to fill up the forms, notified the forum to the SDO. Further, they said that it has been mentioned in the form that for identification a person may submit any of the following, electricity bill, telephone bill, PAN Card, Adhaar Card, Voter Card, etc. But the agency has been asking the ration card and have further stamped it, complained the forum. “They are tampering the Government paper which is a crime,” they stressed. Further, they demanded that the agency should give the forms for free.The President of the forum, NP Dixit said that the gas agencies are regulating their own rules and regulations and the forum is against it. To this the SDO said that they will call a meeting with the gas agency owners after they receive any complaints from the public.On the other hand, Dendup Bhutia, owner of Rinchen gas agency clarified that they are not doing anything that causes inconvenience for the public, instead we are simply checking whether the name of the consumers are authentic or not. Likewise, David gas agency said that the ration cards are being stamped as per the written instructions of the IOC.

News by Mukesh Sharma