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CNG Supply May Begin In A Month, All Depends On Laying of 3-Km Pipeline In Dehu RoadBy sachiv, Section News
The much delayed supply of compressed natural gas (CNG) to the city is expected to begin within a month, but all depends upon how early the work of laying of a three-kilometer pipeline in the Dehu road area is completed.
The CNG supply would be from the Chinchwad mother station initially to about eight to ten retail outlets (petrol pumps) in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. But for this to happen, the pipeline has to be laid. The work has been pending for want of necessary permissions from the defence authorities. Maharashtra Natural Gas Limited (MNGL) authorities are optimistic that the work would be completed within a month, following which they would be able to charge the supply line. The MNGL, a joint venture of Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) and Bharat Petroleum Company Limited (BPCL), has its mother station ready at Chikhali, near Chinchwad. CNG would be transported in vehicles to the retail outlets. The names of the outlets have been finalized and work of installing the necessary compressors and dispensers at the outlets has already begun, MNGL authorities told TOI. Click on "Full Story" for more...
Significantly, the work of laying pipleline from the Chikhali mother station to Sant Tukaramnagar bus depot in Pimpri has been completed. The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) would also be able to get CNG for its buses from this depot. The PMPML has already placed an order for 50 CNG-run buses for the Commonwealth Youth Games, which will be held in October.
According to MNGL authorities, the work of laying of the main supply line from Gatewadi (near Panvel) to Chinchwad, a distance of 64 km, has been completed, but for the threekm stretch in the Dehu road area. The authorities said that the work of laying a pipeline from Pimpri to Pune (PMPML's Narveer Tanaji depot at Shivajinagar) is expected to take some time, as the proposed line goes from plots of land owned by the defence ministry, cantonment board, railways and the state government. Incidentally, after it succeeds in starting CNG supply from its Chinchwad mother station, MNGL's immediate plan is to provide piped natural gas (PNG) to about 1,500 households in Chinchwad. According to MNGL authorities, as the pipeline network has been completed in Chinchwad, the supply of PNG should begin by end-October. Source: TOI, 23/07/2008
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