Rs 1.2 trillion investment planned for city gas network expansion: Pradhan
Rs 1.2 trillion investment planned for city gas network expansion: Pradhan Household kitchens getting piped cooking gas has doubled to nearly 52 lakh and licences awarded would take the number to 5 crore by 2030, he said Current Affairs :- India will see a venture of about Rs 1.2 lakh crore in the take off of city gas organize in very nearly 300 regions by 2030 as a gigantic development is made arrangements for CNG administering stations and pipelines providing cooking gas to family unit kitchens, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Monday. With a permit to retail CNG and funneled gas to family unit kitchens given out for 136 land territories or GAs in most recent one year, the inclusion of city gas system would be 70 percent of nation’s populace, he said here. Pradhan was talking at an occasion composed to stamp the initiation of work on 50 GAs granted in the tenth offer round to firms, for example, Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Adani Gas and Bharat Gas prior this year. ...