LPG agencies likely to face the heat of MDR, plan to approach government

Cooking gas distributors are evaluating the likely impact of the flat ₹5 Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) that the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has proposed on transactions above ₹2,000 from October 15.

Commercial liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder sales coming under the purview of the levy is a given since the 19-kg refills priced nearly ₹3,000 each. But what is not clear to the distributors is whether they will end up attracting MDR on the domestic refills sales, to households, too.