With dearer fuel, CNG conversion rate soars

Delhi | Wednesday | 19th September, 2018

Summary:

“Some stations showed long queues but only half the average sales of 2,000-2,500 kgs.”There are technical barriers as well. The fleet of 1.5 lakh CNG LCVs has also expanded by 2,500, while currently 250 trucks are running on CNG.This is getting reflected in daily sales, which have risen nearly 15% from 27 lakh kg to over 31 lakh kg. These cabs use the queues in these areas to beat no-parking/waiting rules between bookings, usually at intervals of 15-20 minutes. IGL has added 30 stations last year to take the total to 452 covering Delhi, Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Rewari. Two such stations are in operation and LOIs have been issued for 21 more for starting this year.Cabs from aggregators are also contributing to long queues at stations around the airport, railway and bus stations..