PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Jan 14: GAIL India Limited today launched its ninth CNG station at Kadma. Gauri Shankar Mishra, general manager and officer-in-charge of GAIL, inaugurated the facility in presence of other senior officials.
Notably, This CNG Station is known as the “Mother Station”.
Mishra informed that the CNG station of East Singhbhum has been started as a mother station by GAIL under the Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga Project.
Moreover, officials said the gas is coming to its mother station through a steel pipeline from Purulia.
The mother station at Kadma in Jamshedpur will now supply gas to other stations from Jamshedpur itself, which will be a great convenience because earlier gas was being supplied from Ranchi, Bokaro and Durgapur.
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With the arrival of this pipeline, there will be an easy supply of CNG in the CNG station and there will be progress in the supply of PNG in the houses as well.
According to the general manager, the next CNG station will start at Hata and Tirki Highway on NH 33 at Dhalbhumgarh and two other stations of GAIL at XLRI and Shastri Nagar are also under construction.
The Kadma-based mother station will play an important role in the development of Urja Ganga and city gas distribution in East Singhbhum.
