LAHORE, Sept 10: The LPG Distributors Association has urged President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to take notice of undue profiteering by marketing companies.

Association chairman Irfan Khokhar said, in a statement issued here on Wednesday, the marketing companies were charging an average of Rs10 per kg and Rs115 to Rs200 per domestic cylinder over and above the gas prices prescribed in the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority notification OGRA-LPG-17 (210) O8.

The LPG Association of Pakistan had released advertisements claiming that gas was available for Rs78 per kg, but it was being sold at the rate of Rs80 per kg ex-plant to distributors. The charges incurred on transportation of gas to sales points were in addition.

He said a domestic cylinder should be available to distributors at Rs735 ex-plant according to the Ogra notification, but marketing companies were supplying it for Rs830 to Rs940 instead because of failure of the regulator to ensure sale at its prescribed rates.