Union Minister for Petroleum Dr Veerappa Moily will launch the 5 kg Cooking gas cylinders which will now be available at petrol bunks. Moily will launch this availability from Bangalore .

Cooking gas will now be available at select petrol pumps in metro cities after the Oil Ministry has allowed sale of small 5-kg cylinders at retail outlets.

LPG 5-kg cylinders will be available at company-owned-company-operated (COCO) petrol pumps, which make up for just 3 per cent of over 47,000 petrol pumps in the country.

However, they will be priced at market rate which is more than double the subsidised price of Rs 410 per 14.2-kg cylinder in Delhi.

Oil Minister, M. Veerappa Moily, will launch the sale of 5-kg cylinder at Bangalore on October 5. Initially, LPG cylinder sale will be restricted to COCO petrol pumps in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore.

Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum together have 1,440 COCO pumps across the country. The number of outlets in the five cities initially chosen for launch of the scheme would be a few dozen.