Lok Sabha Question No. 996 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-02-08
Subject: Piped Natural Gas Connections
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: Nusrat Jahan Ruhi, Jaskaur Meena, Krupal Balaji Tumane

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 996 TO BE ANSWERED ON 8 th  February, 2021 Piped Natural Gas Connections

996. SHRIMATI NUSRAT JAHAN RUHI : SHRIMATI JASKAUR MEENA: SHRI KRUPAL BALAJI TUMANE:

## पेोलयम और ाक ृतक गैस मंी

Will the Minister of PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is supplying/proposes to Supply natural gas to all the states of the country  through  pipelines,  if  so,  the  State-wise  details  thereof  including  Maharashtra,  West Bengal and Rajasthan;
- (b) whether the Government proposes to provide domestic and industrial piped gas in Ramtek district  of  Maharashtra,  various  cities/districts  of  West  Bengal,  specially  in  the  District  of  24 Parganas and Dausa in Rajasthan during the next two years;
- (c)  if  so,  the  details  thereof  and  if  not,  the  reasons  therefor  including  the  details  of  upcoming schemes/ future projects proposed to be implemented; and
- (d) whether any programme is being run by the Government for the use of other green fuels in future, if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER पेोलयम और ाक ृतक गैस मंी

## ( ी धम धान )

## MINISTER OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS (SHRI DHARMENDRA PRADHAN)

(a)  Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) is the authority to grant authorization to  the  entities  for  the  development  of  City  Gas  Distribution  (CGD)  network  in  Geographical Areas (GAs) as per PNGRB Act, 2006.  So far PNGRB has authorized 232 GAs for development of  CGD  network  across  country  up  to  10th  CGD  Bidding  Round  covering  more  than  400 districts in the country in 27 States/Union Territories (UTs) including Maharashtra, West Bengal and Rajasthan.

(b)  To  provide  Piped  Natural  Gas  (PNG)  to  domestic  and  industrial  customers  are  part  of  the development  of  CGD  network.  PNGRB  has  authorized  Hindustan  Petroleum  Corporation Limited (HPCL) for development of CGD networks in North 24 Pargana and South 24 Pargana districts  of  West  Bengal  under  10 th CGD  bidding  round.  Ramtek  district  of  Maharashtra  and Dausa in Rajasthan have not yet been authorized for development of CGD network.

(c) PNGRB identifies GAs for authorizing the development of CGD network in synchronization with the development of natural gas pipeline connectivity, natural gas availability and technocommercial viability. (d)  With  respect  to  use  of  other  green  fuels  in  future,  Government  has  launched  a  scheme  of Sustainable  Alternative  Towards  Affordable  Transportation  (SATAT)  on  1 st October  2018  to promote  Compressed  Bio-Gas  (CBG)  as  an  alternative  and  green  transport  fuel.    SATAT initiative  envisages  establishing  5000  Biogas  plants  across  the  country  by  the  year  2023-24 whichmay generate approx. 15 Million Tonnes per annum of Biogas. Also,  Government  has  notified  the  'National  Policy  on  Biofuels-2018'  on  04  June,  2018. Government is adopting a multi-pronged approach to promote and encourage use of biofules by blending  ethanol  in  petrol  through  Ethanol  Blended  Petrol  (EBP)  Programme  using  ethanol derived from multiple feedstock, development of Second Generation (2G) ethanol technologies and  its  commercialization  for  augmenting  ethanol  production  and  blending  biodiesel  in  diesel through Biodiesel Blending Programme.

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