{"id":52396,"date":"2026-08-04T22:14:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=52396"},"modified":"2026-08-04T22:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:29:49","slug":"no-shortage-of-cooking-gas-claims-noc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/no-shortage-of-cooking-gas-claims-noc\/","title":{"rendered":"No shortage of cooking gas, claims NOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Aug 4: The Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has clarified that there is no shortage of LP gas in the market and urged consumers to purchase gas only as per their requirements and not to stockpile unnecessarily.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release issued on Tuesday, the NOC has stated that since the sale of 14.2 kg cylinders resumed complaints have been received from consumers regarding the shortage of cooking gas in the market. As a result, the retailers have been urged to record the names, addresses and contact numbers of the buyers, giving priority to consumers for household purposes, and to give priority to senior citizens, people with disability and chronically-ill patients.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the high demand in the Kathmandu Valley, the NOC has made arrangements to sell and distribute 14.2 kg LPG cylinders its office in Teku from Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers are also requested to contact the NOC hotline number 01-5971902 (during office hours) in case of problems in obtaining cooking gas.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Corporation, a total of 31 thousand 861 metric tons of LP gas has been imported from Shrawan 1 to 18. Since there is no problem in the supply with imports during this period, consumers are urged not to purchase and store more gas than necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The NOC has also requested consumers outside of Kathmandu valley to contact the liaison officers of the concerned provincial offices, branch offices and depots for complaints or information regarding LP gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Aug 4: The Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has clarified that there is no shortage of LP gas in the market and urged consumers to purchase gas only as per their requirements and not to stockpile unnecessarily. In a press release issued on Tuesday, the NOC has stated that since the sale of 14.2 kg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52397,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52396\/revisions\/52397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}