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Updated - March 11, 2026 at 10:18 PM.

People queue up to book LPG cylinders at an Indane gas agency in Lucknow on Tuesday, March 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: Nand Kumar Singh

With gradual increase in the domestic consumption of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), import dependence is also growing. While about 46 per cent of domestic demand was met by imports in FY16, this has gone up to 61 per cent in FY26. This import dependence raises strategic vulnerabilities in India’s energy security, especially in cases like the present West Asia conflict, as India sources 80-90 per cent of its LPG imports from that region

Published on March 11, 2026

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