New Delhi, March 17 -- The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday returned the Appropriation Bill, 2026, to the Lok Sabha after a reply to the debate by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who said the government is making all necessary efforts to ramp up LPG supplies in the wake of the West Asia crisis.

She said despite global "turbulent times....domestic LPG production has gone up by 25%, and the entire output of this ramped-up production is going to domestic consumers."

"In the LPG sector, we have been building capacity, and even in these times, the way in which we have ramped up domestic capacity in LPG is also proving helpful," she said.

The Minister noted that while nearly 65 per cent of India's LPG is imported, and "overwhelmingly majority of ...