New Delhi, March 28 -- The government has urged people across the country to ditch the Liquefied Petroleum Gas and adopt Piped Natural Gas (PNG). The Centre has maintained that encouraging people to shift from LPG to PNG is not because of the alleged "LPG shortage", but because PNG is a cleaner and cheaper fuel.

As a precautionary measure amid the Middle-East war, the government has set guidelines for the use and procurement of LPG and also listed a few dos and don'ts for PNG users. They are:

1. No person having a PNG connection shall obtain a domestic LPG connection, or take refills of domestic LPG cylinders from any government oil company, or through their distribution.

2. No person can have both PNG and LPG connections. "Such person...