Agartala, June 6 (TIWN): Transport Minister Manik Dey would open the fourth CNG station at Bramhabari, Udaipur on Monday.

Minister for Industries and Commerce Tapan Chakraborty will also grace the occasion along with Managing Director of Tripura Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (TNGCL) AM Thmabuor.

The new CNG station will cater the need of CNG fueled vehicles in Gomati and South districts. As of now, there is no CNG station after AD Nagar CNG stations.

Keeping in view of increasing number of CNG fueled vehicles, the TNGCL has already set up a CNG refilling station near Ranir Bazar to cater need of vehicles plying on the Assam-Agartala national highway (NH-44). This would be inaugurated very shortly.

Altogether 4,000 auto-rickshaws and over 1,100 other vehicles had already been fitted with CNG kits. 

By next year, all the households in Agartala would be covered by piped natural gas (PNG) connections for cooking. Already 12,200 households are connected with PNG," he said. 

The TNGCL, a joint venture of GAIL (India) Limited and the Tripura and Assam governments, has been supplying PNG and CNG in the city. 

The TNGCL has three CNG supply stations in the city and four more would be commissioned soon, officials said.

According to an official, TNGCL was set to execute a Rs.57-crore business plan over the next five years to develop infrastructure for the green initiative. 

Agartala is the only city among 415 cities and small towns in the eight northeastern states where CNG and PNG are being used in a big way.