The likely solution that appears before the AAP government is to seek for a higher quota of domestic natural gas for Delhi, which would bring down auto and cooking gas prices.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to extend the January 31 deadline for 24,000 commercial vehicles in Mumbai to convert to compressed natural gas (CNG).\n\n
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Disappointed with dismal sales of its top end premium sedan Sonata, Hyundai Motor India Ltd will launch a diesel variant of the model this October, while it is readying to introduce a CNG driven small car by early next year.
Most brokerages are betting that the new government will shift to a policy focussing on boosting rural incomes and consumption since that has clearly been a pain point.
The ministry in a letter dated May 15 overruled Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board's de-recognisation of Indraprastha Gas Ltd, saying IGL was government's authorised entity for city gas projects in Delhi, NOIDA, Gurgaon and Faridabad. PNGRB had asked IGL, the company owned by state-run GAIL and BPCL and Delhi Government that retail CNG to automobiles and piped natural gas to households in national capital region, to stop all incremental activities.
Compressed natural gas is currently available as auto fuel in 30 cities. "CNG-run vehicles have risen by nearly 200,000 in past one year to 650,000," Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board chairman L Mansingh said at the NGV India 2009 conference in New Delhi.
The Standing Committee on Emission Regulation - under the Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport & Highways - today approved addition of hydrogen to CNG (compressed natural gas) for use in vehicles. The proposal is to use CNG with 20 per cent hydrogen content.
Mumbai sources all of its gas requirement from domestic fields and as such there will be no cut in rates in the city.
The cost of CNG, which will be reduced by up to Rs 15 per kg in the next few days following a rejig in natural gas allocation, will go up by Rs 10.6 a kg in April, when domestic gas prices almost double.
'Wherever the government has provided incentives for the purchase of two-wheelers, three-wheelers, cars, buses, and trucks, it gets a push for most of these alternate fuels. '
With India poised to receive its first import of liquefied natural gas, the government has drawn up plans to expand in a big way the CNG supplies to several urban areas in the country.
Four schoolchildren were killed when the CNG cylinder of a van they were travelling exploded on Monday, police said. The explosion took place in the Millat Nagar area of suburban Oshiwara, they said.
In a tragic incident, a newborn girl was charred to death in fire after an explosion in the CNG kit of an ambulance, an official said on Friday.
CNG price in the national capital is cut by a steep Rs 14.90 per kg and cooking gas piped into kitchens by Rs 5 per unit with effect from midnight tonight.
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IGL had this month raised compressed natural gas (CNG) prices in the national capital by Rs 1.25 per kilogram to Rs 29 per kg and piped cooking gas to Rs 26 per cubic meter, as it bought more of imported LNG to meet the rising demand.
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The move is a part of the company's plans to expand its portfolio of eco-friendly vehicles, which could see other models such as Alto, Eeco, Estilo and SX4 also powered by CNG fuel, industry sources said.
Powered by its sedan 'Fiesta', Ford India expects around 100 per cent jump in sales this year and said it will launch a CNG driven Ikon by September this year.
Indian Railways have developed and tested a kit with which diesel engines can run on CNG, Rajya Sabha was informed on Friday.
Passenger vehicle wholesales in India touched a record high of 42,18,746 units in the financial year 2023-24, registering a year-on-year growth of 8.4 per cent on the back of robust demand for utility vehicles, industry body SIAM said on Friday. As per the latest data issued by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), the overall passenger vehicle dispatches stood at 38,90,114 units in fiscal year 2022-23. Two-wheeler sales were up 13.3 per cent last fiscal at 1,79,74,365 units, as compared to 1,58,62,771 units in the financial year 2022-23.
Modi said the push towards a gas-based economy where the share of environment-friendly fuel in the energy basket will be increased from 6.2 per cent to 15 per cent by 2030, will create lakhs of jobs and help meet India's COP-21 commitment of cutting emission intensity by 33-35 per cent.
IGL's share price has taken a beating at the stock exchanges.
Delhi's 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) stood at 248 on Saturday.
Bus and auto fares in the national capital are likely to go up after Indraprastha Gas Ltd announced a hike in the price of compressed natural gas for transport vehicles from July 1.\n\n
Megha Engineering and Infrastructure, the little-known Hyderabad-based firm that in recent years won the prestigious Zojila tunnel deal among other projects, forayed into city gas and acquired a media group, was the second largest donor to political parties using electoral bonds.
The 100-foot-tall illegal billboard fell at a petrol pump in Ghatkopar during dust storms and unseasonal rains that lashed Mumbai on Monday.
Bajaj Auto's market capitalisation (market cap) hit Rs 2 trillion mark for the first time. The stock of the two and three-wheeler major rallied 6 per cent to hit a new high of Rs 7,420 on the BSE in Tuesday's (January 9) intraday trade after its board approved Rs 4,000 crore share buyback at Rs 10,000 per share. The stock ended the day at Rs 7,093.75, up 1.55 per cent and its market cap a shade above Rs 2 trillion.
Delhiites will have to shell out more from their pockets for virtually everything from cooking gas to diesel with Delhi government on Monday withdrawing subsidy on LPG and increasing VAT on many items to "generate" additional revenue.
Price has increased from Rs 41.90 to Rs 45.60.
Diesel cars though deliver a high mileage but are heavy on the pocket.
The two firms are discussing bidding jointly for CGD projects in cities that would be put on offer by the sector regulator, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board in the future.
Eight companies including Reliance Gas Ltd, GAIL Gas and the joint venture of Indian Oil and Adani Energy have bid for the rights to retail CNG in seven cities.
Women drivers and CNG-certified vehicles are likely to be given exemption from Delhi government's ambitious odd-even scheme coming into force from January 1 in New Delhi.
Indian Oil Corporation, which is preparing a 'Hydrogen blue print', will begin manufacturing hydrogen at either its Mathura or Panipat refineries and use the mixture of CNG and hydrogen initially in company-run buses.
Piped cooking gas rates are also increased by Re 1 with effect from midnight.
Petrol pumps in Mumbai, Nagpur and other parts of the state witnessed long queues on Tuesday as people came to fill up their vehicle tanks fearing shortage of fuel amid the protest by truck drivers.
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