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Dharmendra Pradhan launches Natural Gas and Ujjwala awareness campaign
Kashipur (Uttarakhand), December 23, 2016: In order to popularise use of environment- friendly fuels, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) Dharmendra Pradhan today launched an awareness campaign here to highlight the benefits of Natural Gas and the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana under which LPG is provided to underprivileged households.
Minister of State for Textiles Ajay Tamta, MP and former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Bhagat Singh Koshyari, MLA Harbhajan Singh Cheema, Mayor of Kashipur Usha Chowdhury, BJP District President Ram Mehrotra, B.C Tripathi, CMD, GAIL (India) Ltd., along with other dignitaries were present on this occasion.
This is the first time that an awareness campaign of this nature is being carried out in Udham Singh Nagar district which is connected to the country’s natural gas grid through GAIL (India) Limited’s pipeline network.
Natural gas is one of the most environment friendly fuels available today. Its usage helps in curtailing the toxic emissions from the industrial and transport sector. Moreover, supply of natural gas through pipelines is uninterrupted, safe and reliable.
GAIL supplies natural gas to Uttarakhand through its 89 km of pipeline network covering Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar districts. These are the Saharanpur – Haridwar and Karanpur – Kashipur -Rudrapur pipelines which serve the energy needs of customers in Roorkee, Haridwar, Kashipur and Rudrapur regions.
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