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.
“Five years back, city gas appropriation (CGD) organize spread over 34 GAs and now it has extended to 228 GAs covering 406 areas,” he said.
CNG stations retailing the earth well disposed fuel to autos has extended from 938 (five years prior) to 1,769 and will further be extended to 10,000 by 2030, he said including that CNG-run vehicles are relied upon to cross 2 crore, up from around 34 lakhs now.
Family unit kitchens getting funneled cooking gas has multiplied to almost 52 lakh and licenses granted would take the number to 5 crore by 2030, he said.
Oil controller Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) has, in one year, granted licenses for setting up city gas appropriation arranges in 136 GAs. While Rs 70,000 crore speculation was submitted in 86 GAs granted in the ninth city gas offer round in August a year ago, another Rs 50,000 crore was submitted in the 50 GAs granted in the tenth round in March this year.
“The speculation proposed is about Rs 1.2 lakh crore,” he said. “Under 20 percent of the populace was secured by city gas dissemination arrange in 2014 and now after honor of tenth offer round, this will arrive at 70 percent.”
While 86 GAs, made up of 174 regions, were offered for offering in the ninth round that closed in August a year ago, 50 GAs, including 124 areas, were offered in the tenth round.
The huge extension of city gas appropriation system is a piece of government endeavors to raise the portion of flammable gas in the vitality crate to 15 percent by 2030 from current 6.2 percent. Flammable gas is cleaner and condition amicable fuel and is proposed to supplant a portion of the contaminating coal and fluid energizes expended at present.
With the finishing of tenth offering round, CGD would be accessible in 228 GAs involving 406 regions spread more than 27 states and Union Territories covering around 70 percent of India’s populace and 53 percent of its geological territory.
Upwards of “225 offers from 25 substances were gotten up to February 5, 2019 – the offer shutting date (for the tenth round). What’s more, the PNGRB finished the offers in a record time of 21 days,” PNGRB Chairman D K Sarraf said.
Before this, CGD licenses had been given for 178 GAs covering 280 regions (263 complete and 17 section) spread more than 26 states and UTs. These secured around 50 percent of India’s populace (according to 2011 evaluation) and 35 percent of its land region.
State-claimed IOC won licenses to retail gas in 10 urban areas, while HPCL won rights for nine towns in the tenth city gas offer round. IOC won city gas dispersion licenses for nine urban areas, the vast majority of them in Bihar and Jharkhand, all alone and one out of a joint endeavor with Adani Gas.
HPCL, an auxiliary of state-claimed Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), won licenses to retail CNG to vehicles and channeled flammable gas to family units in nine urban areas in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. A consortium of LNG Marketing Pte Ltd and Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company of Manila Inc won rights for nine urban areas in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Kerala.
Gujarat Gas Ltd won rights for six urban areas, while state gas utility GAIL India’s unit GAIL Gas Ltd won rights for four. Indraprastha Gas Ltd and Torrent Gas won rights for three urban communities each, while Adani Gas and Bharat Gas Resources Ltd, a backup of state-possessed Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL), packed away two urban communities each.
In the tenth offer cycle, 2 crore channeled flammable gas associations have been resolved to be given and 3,500 CNG stations will be set up. Plus, a 58,000-inch kilometer of steel pipeline will be laid for the supply of gas.
Aditi Mehta 