good news after a long time

Delhi: After the price of CNG and PNG reached the seventh sky last days, now there is a hope of relief. A decision of the government can give good news to the customers. In order to bring down the price of CNG and PNG, the government allocated some amount of natural gas from industries to city gas distribution companies. This is expected to bring down the price in the coming time.

daily allocation increased
In the notification issued by the Ministry of Petroleum, amendments were made to the earlier order to increase the allocation of domestically produced gas to the gas distributors. Officials said the allocation for gas distribution companies in cities like Delhi’s Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) and Mumbai’s Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) has been increased from 17.5 million cubic meters per day to 2078 million cubic meters.

That’s why the rates of CNG and PNG increased
The increased allocation will meet 94 per cent demand for piped LPG and CNG supply for vehicles in the country. Till now, about 83 percent of the demand was met through this. The remaining allocation was met by GAIL through import of LNG. Officials said that the gas distributor companies had complained about the arrangement of imported LNG at high cost. He said that due to this the prices of CNG and piped LPG are increasing again and again.

Let us tell you that the price of CNG in Indraprastha Gas Limited last time Delhi was increased by a bumper Rs 4 per kg. After this the price has reached Rs 75.61 kg. At the same time, the rate of PNG is running at 50.59 per SCM in Delhi.