6th March, 2003
Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas  


IMPACT OF CNG ON DIESEL/PETROL MARKET


LOK SABHA

Shri Santosh Gangwar, Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas, informed the Lok Sabha in a written reply today that so far Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) has been introduced in Transport Sector in Delhi and Mumbai only. In Delhi CNG has replaced approximately 531 KL diesel and 315 KL of petrol. In Mumbai CNG has replaced 102 KL of diesel and 350 KL of petrol.

Shri Gangwar further informed the House it was difficult to co-relate the value of petrol and diesel vis-a-vis quantity sold in the last three years because of frequent price revision in petrol and diesel. The quantities of petrol and diesel sold in the Metro cities during the last thee years are as follows:

(quantity in kilo litres)

 

1999-2000

2000-2001

2001-2002

 

Petrol (MS)

Diesel

(HSD)

Petrol (MS)

Diesel

(HSD)

Petrol (MS)

Diesel

(HSD)

Delhi

422184

1002867

454821

903230

458967

776398

Mumbai

207293

573140

222853

348313

239186

337108

Kolkatta

54609

136032

56763

141968

57353

188594

Chennai

105939

59409

114723

103852

118525

93703