No LPG Delivery If Staff Not Vaccinated In 7 Days, Say Assam Distributors

Some other north-east states - Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh - have designated LPG delivery staff as frontline workers

The biggest cooking gas distributors' group in the north-east has said it will shut down the LPG dealers' network in Assam if the state government did not vaccinate their entire lot of delivery staff within a week. Some other north-east states - Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh - have designated LPG delivery staff as frontline workers. "From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, LPG distributors across the country are tirelessly distributing cylinders to customers even in containment zones, following all safety guidelines, risking their lives like all other frontline workers," said Prabin Hazarika, general secretary of the North East Indane Distributors Association. "The government has considered vaccination on priority for the medical workers, police, media and defence personnel, sweepers and other safai workers at Covid care centres, except our delivery staff," the LPG distributors' group said in a statement.