Indian Oil setting up high speed carousel at Cherlapalli plant.

Indian Oil Corporation is installing a high speed carousel at the liquefied petroleum gas bottling plant in Cherlapalli, Hyderabad, the first such for the company across the country.

The high speed, flexi carousel can bottle 4,200 cylinders an hour as compared to 1,400 cylinders that conventional carousels are capable of. Commissioning of the new facility, expected by March, would help IOC take its Indane brand cooking gas to more areas and customers.

The carousel is coming in the backdrop of the expected launch of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana in Telangana. A programme for providing LPG connections to Below Poverty Line women, by waiving the deposit fee and offering bank loan for the stove and refill, it was rolled out in Andhra Pradesh in October.

In Telangana, the three national oil marketing companies, namely IOC, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, have around 1.10 crore LPG connections. According to industry sources, between them they were likely to target issue of 10 lakh connections under Ujjwala Yojana.


THE HINDU