Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri said on Sunday that every step taken to fight pollution, including the conversion into compressed natural gas (CNG), has benefits. Speaking to at the launch of the floating CNG station in Varanasi, Puri said, “Ever y step taken to fight pollution benefits us. If the mixing of natural gas in our country is 6 per cent overall and it is going from 6 to 15 per cent, then there is a huge benefit.”

If we are moving towards 20 per cent from 1.4 per cent biofuel blending, then there is a big benefit in that. If 32,000 households in Varanasi are receiving PNG and CNG, then there’s a lot of benefit in that,” he added.

There are around 800 boats that ply in the Ganges, if most of them convert into CNG, then there are a lot of benefits to that as well,” Puri said. In a significant step towards a pollution-free Varanasi, the city’s second floating Compressed Natural
Gas (CNG) Mobile Refuelling Unit (MRU) station at Ravidas Ghat was inaugurated on Sunday by Hardeep Singh Puri.

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