India's manufacturing hubs grapple with severe lpg shortage

india's manufacturing industry is facing a severe crisis, with a shortage of cooking gas cylinders threatening to disrupt production and lead to a mass exodus of migrant workers. The scarcity of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has been particularly acute in Gujarat, a state that is home to several major industrial clusters.

Workers in labor colonies struggle without lpg

Industrialist Parth Ganatra has been personally overseeing the arrangement of cooking wood for his 50 workers in a labor colony attached to his unit in Metoda GIDC, Rajkot. The unusual sight reflects the desperation of many factories in Gujarat, which rely heavily on migrant laborers who now find themselves struggling to cook due to the LPG shortage.