Thiruvananthapuram, March 14 -- The Coffee House functioning inside the Kerala Government Secretariat has suspended its lunch service following an acute shortage of LPG cylinders, underscoring the severity of the cooking gas crisis currently affecting commercial establishments across Kerala.

The lunch service was halted after the canteen was unable to obtain sufficient commercial LPG cylinders, as the disruption in gas supply had spread across the state.

However, another canteen functioning under the Government Secretariat Staff Housing Cooperative Society has not been affected.

Hotels, restaurants, and canteens in several districts are struggling to procure cooking gas, forcing many establishments to either scale down operations or temp...