Government Uses Cheaper Gas Allocations to Accelerate Household PNG Connections

The Indian government launched an incentive scheme providing cheaper administered price mechanism (APM) gas allocations to city gas distributors for each additional active domestic piped natural gas (PNG) household connection added above set thresholds. This aims to accelerate household PNG uptake by lowering distributors' costs and reducing the payback period for connections from 10 to about 3 years over a six-month period.

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