PANJIM: Power Minister Nilesh Cabral on Friday said that the first phase of providing piped cooking gas covering 15,000-odd households in Goa would be completed by the year 2022.
Cabral had participated in the consultation workshop on the City Gas Distribution Network (CGDN) Policy.
Cabral said that the central government, through CGDN policy, has provided guidelines to connect all the households with the piped cooking gas.
“The first phase of the project in Goa would be completed by the year 2022 in which more than 15,000 households would be covered. These are basically the houses located in urban areas,” he said.
Cabral said that in the first phase, total 9,588 households in North Goa and 6,098 houses in South Goa would be covered.
Goa Natural Gas Private Limited, a joint venture between Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) has been awarded work of laying pipeline in North Goa.
The pipeline in South Goa has been laid by Indian Oil Adani India Private Limited, a joint venture between Indian Oil Corporation Limited and the Adani group.
He said that under the draft CGDN policy, the union government has asked the States to provide all the assistance required for the companies laying the pipelines to complete their project.
“The focus is to provide clean cooking gas to the households. During the rest of the phases, other households would be taken up for connections by these companies,” he said.
