LPG Gas Cylinder Consumer Gets up to the 50 Lakhs in a Free Insurance.
50 lakh if a gas cylinder ruptures and a person dies and the 40 lakh if injured.
Utility Desk : If you use an a LPG gas cylinder, you should know about in the insurance you get on it. According to the information available on the gas companies' website, in this insurance are cover provides insurance up to the Rs 50 lakh in a case of any loss of life or a property due to any type of the accident caused by the cylinder. The entire cost of the insurance on the cylinder is a borne by the respective oil companies.
50 lakh on a death and 40 lakh on a injured
Insurance are cover of Rs 40 lakh is a covered in a case of an a accident, while a claim of the Rs 50 lakh can be a made in case of the death due to the cylinder rupture. A maximum of the Rs 10 lakh compensation can be a given to each person who is the victim of an a accident.
Who can take a insurance?
Petroleum companies Indian Oil, Hindustan Petroleum and distributors of the Bharat Petroleum have to get in this insurance. These people have to take a out an a insurance policy for a accidents, including a third party insurance cover for a customers and other assets.
How to the claim?
If an a accident occurs in the customer has to the report it to the police station and the LPG distributor within a 30 days. To claim the sum insured, one has to keep a copy of the FIR, a bill of the expenses for the treatment of the injured and a report in case of the death. After giving the information the concerned officer investigates the cause of the accident and informs the distributor gas company if the accident is a caused by a LPG.
Who pays the insurance claim?
When you are report an a accident to your LPG distributor, they report it to the relevant oil company and insurance company. It is the distributor who helps the customer complete the formalities required for in the claim. The distributor and the customer service cell have all the details.
It is a necessary to check the expiry date of the cylinder for a insurance
It is a insured at the time of the purchase of the cylinder, which is a linked to the expiry date of the cylinder. Often a people buy it without checking in the expiry date. In a such a case, no consumer is a entitled to an a insurance in a claim.
How to check the expiry date of the gas cylinder?
Something like a D-20 is a written on each gas cylinder where the regulator is a installed. That is the expiration date of the gas in a cylinder. The D-20 here means that the expiration date of the gas cylinder is a December on 2020. Then using in this gas cylinder can be a dangerous.
Such a cylinders can cause gas leakage and other problems. A, B, C, D are written on one of the three bars of the regulator above in the gas cylinder. The gas company distributes each letter in a 3 months. Here A means January to the March and B means April to June. Similarly, C is a from July to the September and D is from October to the December.
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