Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday stressed on conservation of petroleum products like petrol, diesel and gas as the country is not self-dependent on such products.
He stated this attending the inaugural function of Sanrakshan Kshamata Mahotsav (Saksham) 2019 organised by the Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA) here. He said CNG has already reached 400 districts and would reach all district by 2022.
The Saksham drive will be orgainsed for a month from January 16 to February 15 across the country.
IOCL CGM Pritish Bharat elaborated on the activities planned to create awareness about oil and gas conservation in the State.
Pradhan flagged off an “Oil and Gas Conservation Van” which will move to all the 30 districts to propagate the message of fuel conservation.
Among others, GAIL Odisha head Sanjay Pathak, BPCL State head (Retail) D Palit, HPCL LPG DGM DK Behura, IOCL ILS DGM Ashok Kumar and PCRA Bhubaneswar Additional Director PK Panda shared the dais. All the people who attended the function took pledge to conserve oil and gas.