Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday inaugurated and dedicated to the nation MNGL’s 5 stations through video conference, which takes the company’s CNG stations to one hundred. The Minister also inaugurated the commencement of civil work at LNG/CNG station at Pathardi, Nashik, Maharashtra, CNG supply to buses in Nashik, and CNG distribution through award of Mobile refuelling Unit (MRU) at Pune.
Speaking on the occasion, Pradhan said that India is committed to achieve 15% share of natural gas in the primary energy mix by 2030 for a more sustainable energy use. This will help reduce environmental pollution, fulfil commitment to COPE-21 climate change commitments.
He said that greater use of natural gas will reduce dependence on fossil fuel and consequently reduce import bill and import dependence. “Our energy transition roadmap will drive self-reliance and create large-scale employment”, he added.
The Union Minister further said that with today’s inauguration, MNGL has a network of 100 CNG stations. “With 5 stations added today we will almost reach the figure of 2500 station. But we have to keep pushing ourselves to reach the figure of 10,000 CNG stations in the coming 7-8 years.”, he added. He said “I have been informed that while Maharashtra SRTC has place order for retrofitting of buses to CNG, Kerala SRTC is also finalising trial conversion for buses.
MNGL has taken pioneering initiative of placing Mobile Refueling Unit (MRU) for the first time in the country.”
