Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel Dharmendra Pradhan today said that by balancing accessibility and affordability, India is creating a global model of energy justice and India will chart its own strategy and pathway for its green energy transition.
Speaking at the joint conferences of the 11th World PetroCoal Congress and World Future Fuel Summit today, he said that India’s energy demand is going to increase in the future, and it has taken a number of concrete steps that are shaping India’s energy transition pathways for a low carbon economy.
The Minister said that balancing accessibility and affordability, India is creating a global model of energy justice.
The Minister said that to reduce vehicular pollution, India leapfrogged from BS-IV to BS-VI emission standards from 1st April, 2020 throughout the country. BS-VI, equivalent to Euro-VI norms and as good as CNG, has improved Auto fuel quality by reducing sulphur content from 50 ppm in BS-IV to 10 ppm in BS-VI.
India has joined select league of nations having world’s cleanest EURO-VI compliant petrol and diesel. Oil PSUS have invested Rs 34,000 crore to upgrade plants for producing BS- VI fuel.
Talking about the gas based economy, Shri Pradhan said that investment of 60 billion US dollars is underway for developing gas infrastructure which includes pipelines, city regasification terminals. He said that One Nation, One-Gas Grid will connect all gas distribution and LNG corners of India. He mentioned about Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga Gas Pipeline in eastern states and Indradhanush Gas Pipeline covering entire North Eastern States. CGD network is being expanded to provide equitable access to clean cooking fuel across India.
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