If all goes well, Bangaloreans need no longer apply for for LPG cylinder refills and wait for its delivery; and this is bound to happen in 2012-13. The infrastructure to supply piped gas to Bangaloreans is expected to be ready this fiscal (2012-13) to allow residents the luxury of cooking gas supplied directly to their homes through a city gas distribution (piped) network.
Chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda, presenting the state budget on Wednesday, said the work of laying a natural gas pipeline from Dabhol (in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra) to Bangalore by Gas Authority of Indian Limited (GAIL) is expected to be completed in this fiscal year. A joint venture company with GAIL and Karnataka State Industrial Infrastructure & Development Corporation (KSIIDC) was formed in June 2011 to provide clean fuel for power plants, transport vehicles, industries and households in and around Bangalore.
According to an earlier GAIL statement, the project involves setting up natural gas infrastructure in industrial estates and clusters, besides city gas distribution networks as well as distributed power generation projects in industrial areas across the state.
It is the distribution networks that would supply piped gas to Bangaloreans’ homes, and compressed natural gas (CNG) to commercial vehicles, including state transport vehicles. This would also include distributing fuel through pipelines to industrial areas in the various parts of the state.
GAIL’s about `5,000-crore project of laying the 1,413-km Dabhol-Bangalore gas pipeline will enable carrying 16 million metric standard cubic metres (mmscm) of gas per day, and is expected to be competed by 2013.
KSIIDC hold 26% equity in the project while 24% is held by GAIL, while the rest 50% will be made up of holdings by private investors, financial institutions and strategic partners in varying equities.
Urban environmentalists say the most striking meritorious outcome of this project being completed and ready for operations would be the resulting drastic fall in pollution levels, as has been witnessed in Mumbai and New Delhi where compressed natural gas is being used by commercial vehicles.
Bangalore, at present, is experiencing severely high air pollution levels because of the absence of CNG, which in turn was because of the absence of a pipeline to deliver CNG to Bangalore. Things are expected to change for the better on this front from next year onwards.
Chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda, presenting the state budget on Wednesday, said the work of laying a natural gas pipeline from Dabhol (in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra) to Bangalore by Gas Authority of Indian Limited (GAIL) is expected to be completed in this fiscal year. A joint venture company with GAIL and Karnataka State Industrial Infrastructure & Development Corporation (KSIIDC) was formed in June 2011 to provide clean fuel for power plants, transport vehicles, industries and households in and around Bangalore.
According to an earlier GAIL statement, the project involves setting up natural gas infrastructure in industrial estates and clusters, besides city gas distribution networks as well as distributed power generation projects in industrial areas across the state.
It is the distribution networks that would supply piped gas to Bangaloreans’ homes, and compressed natural gas (CNG) to commercial vehicles, including state transport vehicles. This would also include distributing fuel through pipelines to industrial areas in the various parts of the state.
GAIL’s about `5,000-crore project of laying the 1,413-km Dabhol-Bangalore gas pipeline will enable carrying 16 million metric standard cubic metres (mmscm) of gas per day, and is expected to be competed by 2013.
KSIIDC hold 26% equity in the project while 24% is held by GAIL, while the rest 50% will be made up of holdings by private investors, financial institutions and strategic partners in varying equities.
Urban environmentalists say the most striking meritorious outcome of this project being completed and ready for operations would be the resulting drastic fall in pollution levels, as has been witnessed in Mumbai and New Delhi where compressed natural gas is being used by commercial vehicles.
Bangalore, at present, is experiencing severely high air pollution levels because of the absence of CNG, which in turn was because of the absence of a pipeline to deliver CNG to Bangalore. Things are expected to change for the better on this front from next year onwards.
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