Asia’s Biggest Steel Town Gets PNG Supply; Pollution Levels To Get Reduced

With the help of Petroleum Department of India and IRM Energy Pvt. Ltd. the Piped Natural Gas (PNG) supply has been started as fuel to the industries in the Asia’s biggest steel town Mandi Gobindgarh in Fatehgarh Sahib district today.

The environmentalists claim that this will help to reduce the pollution levels not only in the town but in the entire district. The officials of the pollution department will now also encourage other industries as well as the automobiles to use PNG for the reduction of pollution.

The first ever PNG supply has been given to M/s Chanakya Bakery Unit at Mandi Gobindgarh town on Thursday. When counted on the scale of pollution the Mandi Gobindgarh town ranks second in the state after Punjab’s industrial hub Ludhiana. In Mandi Gobindgarh there are more than 100 rolling industries, over 40 Hammers, besides 4G industry and others that all run on coal or other fuel to come up with their produce.

The PPCB officials claim that if the entire industry of the town switch to PNG the pollution level will decrease upto 40 percent in the state. However, it does not seems as easier for the industry to switch to PNG immediately as the production cost of the produce is not cheaper than that of the coal or other fuel being used by the industry.

“We have initiated the supply of PNG to the industry in the Mandi Gobindgarh town. This is just a beginning. We are communicating with the centre government also to boost the PNG suppliers so that it goes cheaper for the industry to adopt the PNG fuel instead of the coal or other fuels. The black smoke will reduce and thus the air quality. The gas supply will make the production of better quality than that of the coal and other fuels. The industrialist would also be saving the maintenance cost and losses that they face by using the coal”, said, PPCB Chief Environmental Engineer Karunesh Garg. Read More

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Asia’s Biggest Steel Town Gets PNG Supply; Pollution Levels To Get Reduced added by The Times Of India on February 16, 2018
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