India is offering incentives to gas distributors across cities to boost domestic connections of piped cooking gas, the government said on Tuesday, as the U.S.-Iran conflict disrupts fuel shipments and drives up import costs.
India, the world's second-largest liquefied petroleum gas importer, has been using the cooking gas crisis sparked by the Middle East war to plug gaps in its distribution network and speed up the shift to piped gas in a bid to cut down on LPG imports and spending on subsidies.
