Union Minister of State (independent charge) Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan launched awareness campaign meant to promote the use of natural gas on Tuesday from Prem Nagar Ashram. The Minister assured that under the Centre’s Ujjwala Yojna, the whole State of Uttarakhand would be connected to gas pipelines within two years.
The campaign was organised by Haridwar Natural Gas Pvt. ltd.
launching the campaign, the minister said, “Just as the mountains of the hill state give oxygen to the inhabitants, the arrival of eco-friendly natural gas across the state beginning from Haridwar district would enable the people to breathe cleaner, non-polluted air. The State deserves it as the people of the state pioneered environment conservation movements like Chipko.”
Haridwar Natural Gas Pvt. ltd is a joint venture of Bharat Petroleum and GAIl Gas ltd authorised to implement the city gas project at Haridwar district. Home Delivery Network ltd aims to cover Haridwar district of nearly 2,305 sq.km which will include three charged areas namely Dariyapur Dayalpur, Daluwala Khurd and Purwala Birsangpur covering Haridwar Roorkee and laksar tehsils, said I S Rao ED Bharat Petroleum
Notably, the Haridwar City Gas Distribution Project will be part of the critical CNG corridor connecting the existing and upcoming CGD networks from New Delhi to Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Rishikesh and Dehradun.