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| Oil, Gas Conservation Fortnight campaign takes off | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 16: Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan today launched the annual Oil and Gas Conservation Fortnight (OGCF) campaign here at Hotel Asia.
The campaign is organised by Oil Companies operating in the state every year from under the aegis of the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister highlighted the importance of conservation of energy, including Oil and Natural Gas and said that it would help to make the future of coming generations secure.
The Minister said that main objective of celebrating this fortnight is to create awareness about fuel saving during day to day human activities. He said that the consumption of fuel like oil and gas for human activities including transport, industry, agriculture and households can be reduced to a large extent if certain tips are followed by the consumers. He stressed for achieving the goal by launching massive awareness programmes in urban as well as in rural areas.
Ramzan asked the Oil companies to closely monitor the supply of gas besides quality of petroleum products adding that it would also help in conservation of the fuel to a large extent.
“There is a need to keep close vigil on black-marketing of subsidized Gas and ensure unadulterated fuel for vehicles as it would also go a long way to save the resources from misuse”, he added.
Underlining the need for introducing efficient and cost effective transportation of gas and petroleum products, he said that laying of gas pipe line from Bathinda, Punjab to Jammu and Kashmir is in process and certain issues hampering the project has been cleared by the personal intervention Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
He also called upon oil companies to streamline the LPG supply system and stressed the need for strict implementation of home delivery of LPG in the state. He also asked the Oil companies to expedite the process for opening LPG Gas outlets proposed for uncovered areas of the state.
The Minister also informed that the state government was strongly pursuing the case for raising the cap on subsidized gas cylinders from 9 to 12 in a year with the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Among others Director CAPD, Jammu G. S. Chib, Managing Director, JKSRTC J. S. Tondan, State Level Co-Ordinator Oil Companies for Jammu and Kashmir Girish Ranjan, Territorial Manager, Chatervedi, representatives of various Oil companies and a large number of senior citizens were present on the occasion. |
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