CGD project to cover 2,657 sq km area in Jharkhand and will have 41 CNG stations


Devdiscourse News Desk | Jamshedpur | Updated: 07-03-2019 19:33 IST | Created: 07-03-2019 17:14 IST
CGD project to cover 2,657 sq km area in Jharkhand and will have 41 CNG stations
The city gas distribution (CGD) projects in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan and West Singhbhum districts are worth around Rs 1,200 crore, a senior official of Gail Gas Limited said here Thursday.
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The city gas distribution (CGD) projects in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan and West Singhbhum districts are worth around Rs 1,200 crore, a senior official of Gail Gas Limited said here Thursday. Gail Gas Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gail (India) limited Under the CGD project Gail Gas would supply CNG for the transport sector, Piped Natural Gas for household and Industries and Commercial units, the official said.

Jharkhand Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affair, Saryu Roy Thursday inaugurated a customer meet and awareness campaign for city gas distribution project here. General Manager (marketing) of Gail Gas V Gautam said Seraikela-Kharswan CGD project will cover 2,657 sq km area and will have 41 CNG stations.

Some 2.20 lakh households will be connected with pipe natural gas over a period of 8 years, he said, adding it will benefit 10.65 lakhs of populations. Stating that the supply of piped natural gas to industries and commercial units will help in reduction of pollution in the region, Gautam said the Seraikela-Kharswan project will start functioning by end of this year.

About the West Singhbhum CGD project, he said it would cover 7,224 km area in the district and will have 5 CNG stations. Approximately 6,028 households will be connected with piped natural gas in the first phase, he said, adding that it will benefit 15 lakh population.

The main source pipeline for the CGD projects will be GAILs Jagdishpur-Haldia-Dhamra-Bokaro pipeline, he said. Apart from Seraikela-Kharswan and West Singhbhum districts, he said GGL has also been authorized to supply piped natural gas in Giridih and Dhanbad districts, where work will start from this year end.

Currently, GGL operates 70 to 80 CNG stations, supply piped natural gas to 3,800 commercial units and 600 industrial houses in the country. Gautam said GGL was likely to record a turnover of Rs 5,200 crore in the financial year 2018-19.

(With inputs from agencies.)

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