India LPG Crisis Forces Surat Textile Workers Home
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- Textile workers in Surat, India's textile hub, are returning home after days without cooking gas as an LPG crisis linked to Iran war disruptions halts supplies.
- Surat industries face shutdowns while authorities invoke emergency measures to prioritize cooking gas for households over industrial use.
Why it matters: A cooking-gas shortage that shutters India's textile hub and displaces its workforce shows how quickly a distant geopolitical conflict translates into domestic labor and supply-chain disruption. With authorities reallocating LPG to households, industrial production halts and migrant workers lose income with no stated timeline for resumption.
