"We rolled out blue colored gas cylinders in the market, but there has been no follow up thereafter," a marketing manager of a Kathmandu-based LPG company said, on condition of anonymity. Most of the LPG companies had started complying with the government plan by distributing blue colored cylinders to hotels and restaurants. But the corporation's mechanism was not effective enough to implement it properly. With the increasing demand of petroleum products in the country, the NOC had planned to sell LPG cylinders to commercial users without having to bear losses. The government had issued a notice in the gazette about its implementation. The cylinders contained the same amount of LPG but were different in price and color. "Without a proper monitoring system, there was a risk of artificial shortage of LPG in the market," the official said. But in lack of proper monitoring mechanism, the risk of leakage was high. The NOC wanted to provide subsidy to students and lower income population on LPG-the common cooking gas. "So we had introduced the color-code, aiming to price differently for households and commercial users." "The industrial sector was consuming LPG at a cheaper price," a NOC official told Republica asking anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to the media. The plan was revived in 2018 as the NOC was still making losses. The color-coded cylinders (red for household and blue for commercial use) were introduced by the NOC in 2013 when the state-owned fuel monopoly was making losses. KATHMANDU, July 18: The Nepal Oil Corporation's (NOC) plans to distribute color-coded liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders in the market has apparently failed as it has seen discontinuation for the second time.
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