Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (MS)
Mangaluru, Nov 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone on Thursday, November 22, for the innovative 'City Gas' project of the central government under which cooking gas will be supplied directly to each house of the city.
The foundation stone will be laid at 4 pm at the Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. This project will be implemented by GAIL Gas Ltd in 129 districts of the country including the city of Mangaluru. This programme will be telecast live simultaneously in all the districts, which will be covered under the scheme. In addition, the bidding for the implementation of the programme also will be inaugurated at the same time.
A separate programme is organized in this connection in the Town Hall of the city. This function will take place at 2.30 pm on Thursday, November 22. Central minister Sadananda Gowda, MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, MLAs Vedavyas Kamath and Dr Y Bharat Shetty and mayor of MCC Bhaskar K will be the chief guests. Once the stage programme is over, arrangement is made in the Town Hall for the direct live telecast of the foundation stone laying ceremony by PM Modi.
Progress of work so far
The laying of pipeline for the gas supply from Cochin to Mangaluru is already completed by GAIL, which a central government enterprise. The pipeline will be further laid to supply natural gas to MCF in the city. This pipeline will be 35 kilometre long and will cover 16 villages. A project is being drawn to supply the same gas to the citizens of the city through pipeline.
The aim of the scheme is to provide cooking gas to each house in the city. For this the gas pipeline will be laid after obtaining permission from MCC, MESCOM and BSNL and also taking into account the water and drainage pipelines. In addition, city gas bunks will also be installed at several places in the city.
MCF and MRPL Township to be covered first
As a trial implementation of the project, around 200 to 500 houses and industries will be supplied with gas through pipeline. The pipeline will be laid first in either MCF or MRPL Township near Suratkal. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) will arrive to Cochin terminal via ship from Qatar. If this is brought through 'LNG Bullet' through ship, which is similar to 'LPG Bullet', the gas is enough to feed 1000 connections for a month.
Otherwise there is a possibility of bringing the gas in 'Cryogenic Tanker' by road transport just like LPG tankers. A small terminal will be set up in the city like the one in Cochin terminal to convert the LNG into gas form. From there, GAIL will supply the gas as Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) for vehicles, Piped Natural Gas (PNG) for household use, and for commercial and industrial use separately.