New Delhi, May 15 || Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday announced that the remaining 116 villages in the city without a piped cooking gas line will get the facility by the year-end, ensuring that all Delhi villages are covered under the scheme.
Earlier, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena and the CM virtually inaugurated PNG (Piped Natural Gas) supply to 111 villages at a ceremony in Dwarka.
CM Gupta said the piped gas connections in Delhi, under the second phase of extending gas pipeline facility to villages, mark a new chapter in the lives of all families in 111 villages.
“The 116 villages that are without a piped gas line will also get the facility by this year end,” she said, adding that a total 130 villages had got piped gas line in the first phase.
The CM announced that with the 111 villages getting piped gas on Thursday the total length of line has gone up to 13,000 km in the city.
“Piped gas supply is going to improve the health of women and protect the environment from pollution,” she said.
“As a homemaker I have also experienced problems related to sudden finishing of cooking gas in the LPG cylinder,” she said, adding that piped gas will end such problems in villages.