Bengaluru already has over 51,000 registered Compressed Natural Gas vehicles, and the use of CNG as an intercity fuel has been gaining momentum here, said GAIL Gas Ltd. on Wednesday.
GAIL Gas currently sells 1.9 lakh kg of CNG a day in the city in addition to the CNG growth driven by the tourist corridor involving Mysuru, Hosur, Tumakuru, Ramanagar, Hyderabad and Dakshina Kannada (GAIL Gas).
The oil PSU, which currently has over 100 CNG stations network in Bengaluru Urban and Rural districts, said it has plans to expand its CNG network in the city by adding another 200 CNG stations. It already laid 2,000 km of pipeline network across the city to make CNG available in Lalbagh, K.R. Puram, Koramangala, J.P. Nagar, K.H. Road, Vijaynagar, Thanisandra, Mysore Road, Attibele, Yelahanka, HSR Layout, Whitefield, Sarjapur, Banashankari, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Peenya, Hoskote, Airport Road, Bagalur, Nelamangla, Tumkur Road, Electronic City, Hosur Road, Jigni, and Bommasandra, said the company.
