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Table 12
Status of CNG stations and vehicles (as of March 31, 2013)
No. of CNG
stations
No. of CNG
vehicles
State
Company name
Share (%)
Share (%)
Gujarat
GAIL Gas/Adani
Energy/Gujarat Gas,
GSPC, GGCL, SGL,
HPCL
313
34.51
638,422
34.08
Delhi/NOIDA,
Gr. NOIDA/Ghaziabad
Indraprastha Gas (IGL),
New Delhi
290
31.97
720,000
38.43
Maharashtra
Mahanagar Gas Ltd.
(MGL), Mumbai;
MNGL, Pune
203
22.38
334,810
17.87
Andhra Pradesh
Bhagyanagar Gas Ltd.
(BGL) Hyderabad
29
3.20
19,958
1.07
Rajasthan
GAIL Gas
2
0.22
1,085
0.06
Uttar Pradesh
Green Gas Ltd.
(Lucknow);
CUGL (Kanpur)
30
3.31
56,857
3.03
Tripura
Tripura Natural Gas
Co. Ltd. (TNGCL),
Agartala
3
0.33
4,682
0.25
Madhya Pradesh
Avantika Gas
(Indore)/GAIL Gas Ltd.
16
1.76
10,878
0.58
Haryana
Haryana City Gas Ltd.
14
1.54
85,560
4.57
West Bengal
GEECL
7
0.77
1,201
0.06
All India
907
100.00
1,873,453
100.00
Source
: PPAC, GSPC, IGL
renewable price parity with fossil fuel-based
power to happen, the government needs to
reduce the subsidy component on fossil-based
power and divert the subsidy to renewables to
drive renewable production and consumption. It
is visible that the government offering appropri-
ate incentives and the regulatory bodies setting
attractive tariff for renewable energy producers
(Table
13
and
14
) .
economy in India. There are reasonable and com-
pelling arguments in favour of a green economy
in India. Some of these are as follows:
A green economy is a way forward truly to
improve human well-being and achieve the
millennium development goals.
It promotes equity, not just in the nature of the
common but differentiated responsibilities of the
Rio Principles, but also as an expanded policy
space for diversifi ed sustainable development.
It provides a win-win economic-environmental
model that ensures that economic and envi-
ronmental synergies prevail over trade-offs.
The green economy is essentially an inclusive
concept comprising the economic, social and envi-
ronmental pillars of growth (Chatterjee
2011
).
Developing countries like India can continue to pur-
sue its development agenda with sustainable means.
Of course, the developed nations have to take the
lead in terms of changing production and consump-
tion pattern and show the developing world the path
of sustainability. This can be essentially done
7.1
Green Economy in India
Visions of a green economy have assumed differ-
ent meanings and defi nitions from country to
country depending on national strategies and pri-
orities (Govindan
2012
). While addressing a
meeting organised for the Executive Director for
UNEP on June 3, 2011, Tishya Chatterjee, the
Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and
Forests, Government of India, acknowledged that
there is a strong need for moving towards a green
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