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The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has said that Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board has advised City Gas Distribution (CGD) agencies to upgrade their retail compressed earthy state (CNG) dispensing units, called Daughter Booster Stations, to online stations.
This, Union Minister of State for PNG Suresh Gopi told the Lok Sabha, would assistance successful faster filling of CNG and thereby resulting successful simplification of queuing of vehicles. The Minister was precocious responding to an unstarred question from subordinate Kota Srinivas Poojary connected the agelong queues of autorickshaws successful beforehand of CNG stations successful coastal Karnataka. He besides queried the reasons for hold successful empanelling caller CNG distributors though galore were waiting to acceptable up dispensing units.
An online CNG station, oregon a Mother Booster Station, receives CNG straight from underground earthy state pipeline of a metropolis state organisation strategy portion an offline presumption receives CNG done CNG cascades (lorries) and stores the aforesaid successful cylinders. There would beryllium continuous and uninterrupted CNG proviso successful a parent presumption portion the proviso has to get by lorries successful a girl station.
Vehicles capable compressed earthy state astatine a Mother Booster (online) Station astatine Panambur successful Mangaluru. | Photo Credit: ANIL KUMAR SASTRY
Mr. Gopi said occasional queues are observed astatine retail outlets during highest hours owing to abrupt request surges oregon operational constraints. However, CGD entities are continuously taking measures to heighten CNG presumption ratio by installing capable dispenser units and ensuring amended coordination of state supplies to trim lawsuit waiting times.
New stations being added
The Minister said opening CNG stations is simply a portion of the CGD web carried retired done CGD entities authorised by PNGRB arsenic per their Minimum Work Programme (MWP). PNGRB has authorised CGD web improvement successful 307 Geographical Areas (GAs) covering the full mainland of the country.
While CGD entities person to found 18,336 CNG Stations crossed the state by 2034, arsenic astatine September-end, they person opened 8,357 Stations against the pro-rata people of 5,826 Stations. CGD entities are continuously adding caller stations, including done company-owned company-operated (COCO), dealer-owned dealer-operated (DODO) etc. A ample fig of CNG outlets are established astatine existing substance stations of lipid selling companies.
He besides said PNGRB has authorised 34,233 km of Natural Gas Pipeline web crossed the state to make a nationalist state grid and to instrumentality “One Nation One Gas Grid.” As successful June, 25,429 km pipeline is operational and 10,459 km pipeline is nether construction. CGD entities person laid 6,20,428 Inch-Km pipeline to screen their section web wrong their respective GAs.
