PNG supply starts in Karnal industrial area

Tribune News Service

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Karnal, November 11

The supply of piped natural gas (PNG) was started in the industrial area in Sector 3 today. However, industrialists have shown very less enthusiasm as only 11 out of around 200 owners signed the agreement to switch to PNG.

In 2019, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had directed the industries to switch to PNG instead of using the existing fuel in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) by August 2019. Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL), a distribution company, was assigned the work by the government to lay pipeline for PNG supply in Sector 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13 and part of Sector 13 extension, along with industrial area in Sector 3. The company had started the work in March 2019 and the deadline was fixed for March 2020, but the work was delayed due to Covid-induced lockdown.

The company has laid the pipeline in the whole industrial area and the supply was started today. Karnal Mayor Renu Bala Gupta and SK Arora, Regional Officer, Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB), inaugurated the supply in the presence of Vineet Bhatia, Additional GM, HSIIDC; Manoj Arora, president, Karnal HSIIDC Welfare Association; Amit Gupta, state vice-president of Haryana Chamber of Commerce; and Som Sachdeva, patron of Karnal Agricultural Implement Manufacturers Association.

“M/s Modern Industry has become the first industrial unit in Karnal to switch over to PNG. More industrial units will switch over in the coming days as the gas is now available at their doorsteps. We are spreading awareness among other industrialists to switch to PNG,” said Ankush Jain, DGM, Haryana IGL.

Industrialists should also come forward to switch over to cleaner fuel and contribute towards a cleaner environment. This would surely help in curbing environmental pollution from industries to a greater extent, he added.

ONLY 11 FIRM OWNERS INTERESTED

• The industrialists have shown very less enthusiasm as only 11 out of around 200 owners signed the agreement to switch to PNG.
• Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL), a distribution company, was assigned the work by the government to lay pipeline for PNG supply
• The company had started the work in March 2019 and the deadline was fixed for March 2020, but the work was delayed due to Covid-induced lockdown