A valedictory function was organised at the AMN Ghosh auditorium in which prizes were given to winners of various competitions which include drawing, quiz, debate, slogan, essay writing etc organised at various schools in Dehradun during the Oil and Gas Conservation Fortnight, which was started on January 15.
While addressing the gathering as a chief guest, Shashi Shanker, Director (T&FS) said that India constitutes more than 15 per cent of world population but has oil reserves of only 0.6 per cent which necessitates our dependence on oil import. Hence, for the energy security of the nation, it is prime responsibility of everybody to make efforts to utilise the available resources judiciously and it is possible only by conserving the present resources and developing alternate resources.
He further said that a “drop of oil saved is a drop of oil produced” and there is a potential of oil and gas saving to the tune 25 per cent which is equivalent to the discovery of one major oil field. After appreciating the efforts shown by the ONGC employees, housewives, children and public, Shanker said that OGCF would be proved extremely beneficial for creating awareness among the masses and also helped for oil and gas conservation.
Speaking on the occasion, D Sar (IDT) emphasised the need of oil and gas conservation to the students in the simple manner and said that oil and gas conservation is the need of hour. He also stressed that it is our prime responsibility to conserve and alsoexpressed the need of using car pool. He also urged students to participate in available means of oil and gas conservation.
Sar said that conservation is not a fortnight activity but it should be made a habit in everyday chores of life through out the year. Expressing his views, GP Patel, Managing Director, Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam limited said that the limited has been working round the clock for generating surplus electricity in the state in order to meet with the demand of electricity in the State.
He said that the turbines are working at optimum level despite the fact that hydro power projects also faced the brunt of natural calamities that rocked the State last year. RK Bahuguna, Deputy General Manager (Elect) in-charge Corporate Energy Cell, outline the various activities undertaken by the corporate energy cell during OGCF-14. He also informed that ONGC has bagged first prize in upstream oil sector for spreading message of oil and gas conservation.