Minister for Public Relations, Law and Legislative Affairs, Science and Technology, Aviation, Religious Trusts and Endowment PC Sharma said that it is most important to conserve fuel for secured future. He was addressing the 29th Oil and Gas Conservation Capacity Mahotsav ‘Saksham’ at Samanvay Bhavan on Wednesday.
On this occasion, he also administered oath to the people present at the programme for fuel conservation. Sharma inaugurated the campaign being conducted for conservation of fuel from January 16 to February 15.
Sharma mentioned that at present 80 per cent petroleum products are being imported from abroad and exorbitant money is spent on this. He further stated that money saved by fuel conservation will be invested to establish industries and business and utilised in public welfare works. Sharma asserted that we can include cycling in our daily routine to save fuel. We can save fuel by building bypass and service roads to avoid fuel wastage on red signals. He told the Chief General Manager of the Petroleum Conservation Research Association, Vigyan Kumar to give a thought for taking necessary measures to control increasing prices of petroleum products.
Vigyan Kumar on the occasion informed that at present the total consumption of petroleum products is 204.92 MMT, while production of these products is only 35.68 MMT, which is only 17.41 per cent of the total consumption. For the remaining quantity, India is dependent on other countries and imports, he informed adding that by 2022, India has set goal of reducing imports by 10 per cent.
The oil conservation month is being observed with theme- ‘Fuel conservation responsibility, participation of people.