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IN PHOTOS: Mumbai struggles as LPG shortage shuts hotels and empties homes

Updated On: 12 March, 2026 04:47 PM IST | Tarun Verma

Mumbai is at the centre of India's worsening LPG crisis as a severe shortage of cooking gas cylinders continues to affect households, hotels, restaurants and even the BMC headquarters canteen. Long queues have been reported outside gas agencies across the city, with many hotels and eateries forced to shut down or switch to alternative cooking methods (Pics/PTI)

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Mumbai is at the centre of India's worsening LPG crisis as a severe shortage of cooking gas cylinders continues to affect households, hotels, restaurants and even the BMC headquarters canteen. Long queues have been reported outside gas agencies across the city, with many hotels and eateries forced to shut down or switch to alternative cooking methods (Pics/PTI)

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Mumbai is at the centre of India's worsening LPG crisis as a severe shortage of cooking gas cylinders continues to affect households, hotels, restaurants and even the BMC headquarters canteen. Long queues have been reported outside gas agencies across the city, with many hotels and eateries forced to shut down or switch to alternative cooking methods (Pics/PTI)
<p>Mumbai's LPG crisis deepens as households, hotels and offices struggle to get cooking gas cylinders amid a severe supply shortage</p>

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Mumbai's LPG crisis deepens as households, hotels and offices struggle to get cooking gas cylinders amid a severe supply shortage

<p>With 20 percent of Mumbai's hotels already shut and the BMC canteen switching to electric grills, the city's LPG crisis has reached a critical point</p>

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With 20 percent of Mumbai's hotels already shut and the BMC canteen switching to electric grills, the city's LPG crisis has reached a critical point

<p>Mumbai's cooking gas crisis shows no sign of easing as gas agencies run dry, hotels close and households are left waiting days for cylinder deliveries</p>

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Mumbai's cooking gas crisis shows no sign of easing as gas agencies run dry, hotels close and households are left waiting days for cylinder deliveries

<p>Residents and businesses across Mumbai are bearing the brunt of a worsening LPG shortage</p>

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Residents and businesses across Mumbai are bearing the brunt of a worsening LPG shortage

<p>A worker off-loads LPG cylinders from a carrier truck, in Navi Mumbai.</p>

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A worker off-loads LPG cylinders from a carrier truck, in Navi Mumbai.

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