Mysuru: The ambitious initiative to provide ‘direct to home’ Piped Natural Gas (PNG) to every household in Mysuru city has resumed after a delay of one and a half years. Works have restarted with fresh instructions from the Urban Development Department and residents will soon be able to access affordable cooking gas. Pipelines have already…
Wheels of six cars buried in deep slush
December 3, 2024Poorly filled gas pipeline project trenches turn messy in Saraswathipuram Mysuru: The wheels of five to six cars were buried in a poorly covered trench dug to lay a Piped Natural Gas (PNG) pipeline at Saraswathipuram in city yesterday. While some car owners managed to have their vehicles lifted from the muddy trench last night…
Four years on, piped natural gas project remains a pipe dream
May 13, 2024Government slashes land charges from Rs. 1,956 to Re. 1 per metre; MCC officers refuse to comply Mysore/Mysuru: The ambitious initiative to provide ‘direct to home’ Piped Natural Gas (PNG) to every household in Mysuru city has hit a roadblock due to the attitude of certain officials from the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC). Despite the…
PNG pipeline-laying charges reduced
January 24, 2024MP Pratap Simmha chairs progress review meeting; MCC to seek approval to continue pipeline works Mysore/Mysuru: To speed up the faster implementation of city pipeline gas distribution infrastructure, the State Cabinet has drastically reduced the pipeline-laying charges of the ‘direct to home’ Piped Natural Gas (PNG) project from the earlier Rs. 1,956 to just Re….
Direct-to-home Piped Natural Gas project: 35,000 consumers register; plumbing works done at 10,000 homes
July 19, 2023700 households already using PNG gas to cook; a major step forward for the city’s energy transition Mysore/Mysuru: The direct-to-home Piped Natural Gas (PNG) project that was formally inaugurated in Mysuru on July 15, 2022, has progressed well and the project has covered areas like Vijayanagar First Stage, Vijayanagar Second Stage (within the Outer Ring…
Door-to-door gas pipeline connection: 45-km works completed in first phase
October 24, 2022Over 200 houses given connections, remaining works after approval from Government: MP Mysore/Mysuru: The Piped Natural Gas (PNG) connections for domestic use, a project of the Union Government, is being implemented in the city. In the first phase, 45-km pipeline laying works has already been completed and more than 200 households have been given connections…
Direct to home piped gas project: MCC seeks Rs. 1.23 crore payment from gas firm
May 24, 2022Company has to pay Rs. 1,857 per metre for roads dug up; 5,000-metre pipeline in first phase Mysore/Mysuru: Despite stiff opposition from a section of elected representatives and Corporators, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has accorded permission to implement the ambitious project of procuring cooking gas through pipelines through Piped Natural Gas (PNG) that was…
MCC approves piped gas project amidst din
April 30, 2022Cloth bag distribution project to all households scrapped Mysore/Mysuru: Amidst acrimonious scenes over the authority of the Mayor in conducting a Council Meeting in the wake of Mayoral term expiring in February, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Council last evening gave its assent for piped gas supply for individual households in the city. The project…
Mayor visits piped gas project in Tumakuru
February 13, 202270 percent works completed under Smart City in Tumakuru 19,500 houses getting clean fuel to kitchens in Hubballi-Dharwad Mysore/Mysuru: While the pros and cons of direct-to-home Piped Natural Gas (PNG) in Mysuru is being discussed in public and private platforms and on social media, thanks to the heat and dust it has raised in the…
Piped gas project in city: Earlier the better
February 13, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Any delay will spoil the actual public-friendly project and speedy approvals have to be accorded, opined Vijayanagar Corporator M.U. Subbaiah. He had been to Tumakuru along with Mayor Sunanda Palanetra and fellow Corporators to see how the project is being implemented there. Delay in executing the project will lead to more problems and the…
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