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The national capital will soon be connected to Chandigarh, Jaipur, Agra and Haidwar through green corridors that will be conducive for running CNG powered vehicles.
Speaking at an event to launch a digital customer initiatives of Indraprashtha Gas Limited, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan said, “We will be inaugurating green corridors that connect New Delhi from all four directions. The green corridors will be from Delhi to Agra, Delhi to Chandigarh, Delhi to Jaipur and from Delhi to Haridwar. These corridors will be inaugurated in February 2019.”
These green corridors were first mentioned by Pradhan in 2015 and were initially supposed to be operational by 2017.
“We are in the process of procuring eight long range CNG buses that will ply these routes as the first stage of the green corridor. These buses have been designed by Ashok Leyland and are in the final stages of getting regulatory approvals. Once these approvals are received, the buses will undergo test runs for 45 days and then be declared fit for commercial operations,” E S Ranganathan, Managing Director at IGL told BusinessLine .
“The buses can ply for 700 kilometers in each refill and each bus costs roughly ₹ 39 lakh. This pilot project is expected to be launched in February next year. Eventually there will be a CNG station at every 50 kilometers on both sides of these green corridors,” he added.
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