New Delhi, July 1 -- With nearly 60 per cent of India's LPG supply historically routing through the sensitive Strait of Hormuz, the maritime shipping crisis posed a direct and severe threat to domestic cooking fuel. Nevertheless, India successfully kept cooking gas flowing into millions of homes by executing a comprehensive overhaul of its supply and demand architecture at the height of the conflict.

Tehran had closed the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint for the global energy markets through which close to a fifth of the world's oil moves, after the US and Israel's strikes on Iran on February 28.

Former BPCL Director (Marketing) Sukhmal Jain told ANI that the government's core directive was straightforward and unyielding. "The first dec...