Reportedly price price of cng used in automobiles and cooking gas piped to household kitchens was on friday cut by 7 per cent in step with a reduction in input natural gas prices. Indraprastha Gas Ltd, the retailer of cng and piped natural gas in the national capital and adjoining areas, said cng price in delhi will be cut by Rs 3.20 to Rs 42 per kg.
In adjoining noida, Greater noida and ghaziabad, the reduction would be Rs 3.60 to Rs 47.75 per kg. Meanwhile IGL, in a statement, also announced cut in its domestic piped natural gas prices by Rs 1.55 per standard cubic meters to Rs 28.55 per scm in Delhi. Piped natural gas in noida, Greater noida and ghaziabad would be Rs 28.45 scm, a reduction of Rs 1.65 per scm from Rs 30.10.
This is the second reduction in rates in six months. cng price was on october 2, 2019, cut by Rs 1.90 per kg in delhi and by Rs 2.15 per kg in noida, Greater noida and Ghaziabad. On that day piped natural gas rates were cut by Rs 0.90 per scm in delhi and by Rs 0.40 in neighbouring towns in Uttar Pradesh. The latest reduction follows the government cutting the price paid for natural gas produced from domestic fields by 26 per cent to USD 2.39 per million british thermal unit effective april 1. Natural gas gets converted into cng on compression and is also supplied for lighting cooking stoves through pipes. IGL said the revised cng price in muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh would be Rs 56.65 per kg, in Karnal would be Rs 49.85 per kg and in Rewari and Gurugram would be Rs 54.15 per kg.
