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LPG is provided to underprivileged households.
Posted: 22 Dec 2016 05:00 AM PST
Kashipur (Uttarakhand), December 22, 2016: In order to popularise use of environment- friendly fuels, Hon’ble Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) Shri Dharmendra Pradhan today launched an awareness campaign here to highlight the benefits of Natural Gas and the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana under which LPG is provided to underprivileged households. Hon’ble Minister of State for Textiles Shri Ajay Tamta, Hon’ble MP and former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Hon’ble MLA Shri Harbhajan Singh Cheema, Hon’ble Mayor of Kashipur Smt. Usha Chowdhury, BJP District President Shri Ram Mehrotra, Shri B.C Tripathi, CMD, GAIL (India) Ltd., along with other dignitaries were present on this occasion.
This is the first time that an awareness campaign of this nature is being carried out in Udham Singh Nagar district which is connected to the country’s natural gas grid through GAIL (India) Limited’s pipeline network.
Natural gas is one of the most environment friendly fuels available today. Its usage helps in curtailing the toxic emissions from the industrial and transport sector. Moreover, supply of natural gas through pipelines is uninterrupted, safe and reliable.
GAIL supplies natural gas to Uttarakhand through its 89 km of pipeline network covering Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar districts. These are the Saharanpur – Haridwar and Karanpur – Kashipur -Rudrapur pipelines which serve the energy needs of customers in Roorkee, Haridwar, Kashipur and Rudrapur regions.
Moreover, another 100 Km of pipeline network, i.e., Haridwar – Rishikesh/Dehradun and Rudrapur – Pantnagar – Haldwani are being planned at an investment of about Rs. 200 Crore. These pipelines will connect two new districts of the state, viz. Dehradun & Nainital, with the Natural Gas grid of India.
City Gas Distribution (CGD) networks are already being developed in Udham Singh Nagar and Haridwar districts to supply environment-friendly piped natural gas (PNG) to households and compressed natural gas (CNG) to vehicles.
With thousands of domestic customers in the state expected to convert to PNG in the coming months, the LPG connections freed up as a result will be provided to beneficiaries from below poverty line (BPL) families through the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. Already, 13,900 households in Uttarakhand have been provided LPG connections under the scheme.
The CGD network in Udham Singh Nagar district is being implemented by IndianOil-Adani Gas Pvt Ltd (IOAGPL) which will lay more than 300 kms of pipeline network to supply PNG to more than 40,000 houses in the district in 10 years. The network shall cover all important demand centres at Rudrapur, Kashipur, Jaspur, Bajpur, Khatima, Sitarganj and Gadarpur and in five years.
IOAGPL shall also set up 10 CNG stations to provide CNG to vehicles. The company shall invest Rs 200 crores in five years and the project is expected to generate direct and indirect employment for 1,50,000 people. The first phase of the Udham Singh Nagar CGD network is likely to be commissioned by March 2017.
Further, a joint venture of GAIL’s subsidiary GAIL Gas and Bharat Petroleum is executing the city gas distribution project in Haridwar District. This project will benefit about 17,000 households which will get PNG connections while around 10,000 vehicles can convert to CNG. The projected Capital Expenditure for the first five years in the project is Rs 148.91 Crore.
The gas pipeline network shall also supply gas to the industrial and commercial units. Industrial units shall be able to use natural gas for various applications such as process agent, heating, power generation, cooling, etc. Its usage improves the efficiency and helps to cut down the carbon emissions.
Haryana’s Cabinet Minister Shri Anil Vij launches The Loomba Foundation’s project
Haryana’s Cabinet Minister Shri Anil Vij launches The Loomba Foundation’s project to empower 1000 widows and women prisoners in the state
December 23, 2016, Ambala: Shri Anil Vij, Hon’ble Minister of Health, Sports and Youth Affairs, Government of Haryana today launched The Loomba Foundation’s project to empower 1000 widows and women prisoners in all 19 district prisons of Haryana. Lord Loomba CBE, Founder and Chairman Trustee of the Loomba Foundation, a UN accredited global NGO, travelled from London to be present at the launch together with Trustee Mr. Balbir Singh Kakar who raised funds for this project at a concert in New Delhi.
Mr. Rajat Kapoor, Founder of The Indian Diaspora Club organized the launch at Central Prison in Ambala, with the support of Haryana Prisons and the Government of Haryana. It was attended by several dignitaries including Shri Yash Pal Singal, IPS, Director General of Prisons, Haryana; Mr. Vikas Gupta, Joint Managing Director of Earth Infrastructure Ltd.; Mr. Rajeev Sharma, IAS (Retd.), Convenor of Swarn Jayanti Celebrations Authority (SJCA), Haryana; Mr. Deepak Gupta, District and Session Judge, Ambala; Mr. S.P.S Chauhan, Superintendent of Central Jail, Ambala; and, Mr. Rajat Kapoor, Founder of Indian Diaspora Club among others.
Founder & Chairman of The Loomba Foundation, Lord Loomba CBE, said “The Loomba Foundation intends to do this project with the sole purpose of helping the prison inmates use their time constructively during their stay in prison and to make them learn some skills which will eventually help them on their release from prison. The inmates will not only be trained to have vocational skills, but various aspects of personal development as well as value education would be equally emphasized.”
He added our mission is to make prisons a place of reformation and give the incarcerated beings a chance to become an asset to the society upon their release.
Urging the people to support the future of the children of widows, Shri Balbir Singh Kakar, a Trustee of The Loomba Foundation and an NRI, quoted Punjabi philosopherBulleh Shah’s Sufi poetry, “Charhte Sooraj Dhalde Wekhe, Bujhe Deewe Balde Wekhe…Jinnan Da Na Jag Te Koi, Oovi Puttar Palde Wekhe” (I have seen rising Sun set down, extinguished lamps getting lit up again, and orphans of those who have no one in the world also nourished).
At a recent charity concert organized by The Loomba Foundation with internationally-renowned Punjabi singer Gurdas Maan for raising funds for this Haryana project, UK’s former First Lady and the President of The Loomba Foundation, Mrs. Cherie Blair CBE QC, had said, “I love the work we do at The Loomba Foundation because while providing a sewing machine and training may be a small business, it makes a big impact in supporting the widows and their children, who deserve a better life. It matters all over the world because we are not giving everyone an equal chance in life.”
Mr. Rajat Kapoor, Director of the Indian Diaspora Club, who supported The Loomba Foundation in organizing the launch event in Ambala, said, “We at IDC salute Lord Loomba’s unparalleled spirit and initiative to connect back to his motherland. His efforts over the last two decades are an inspiration to the millions of Indian diaspora to contribute towards accelerating the progress of India.”
Over nearly two decades, The Loomba Foundation has been the crusader for the welfare of widows. It is assisting over 15,000 impoverished widows in nine states, including a project to empower 5000 widows in Varanasi which was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year. The Loomba Foundation has also provided five-year-long education scholarships to more than 10,000 children of poor widows and supported more than 60,000 of their family members across 29 states in India. Currently, it is educating about 1600 children of poor widows in 13 states of India including Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Uttarakhand.
For his exceptional contribution in the field of public service and community service to uplift, emancipate and empower poor widows and their children in India, the Indian Government has conferred the Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Patra on Lord Raj Loomba, who is also the recipient of several other recognitions and accolades including the United Nations Association of New York’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Forbes India Philanthropy Award, British Asian of the Year Award, and an Honorary Fellowship by The University of Northampton. It was due to the efforts of Lord Loomba that the United Nations recognized 23rd June as International Widows Day which has helped bring the world’s attention to this neglected humanitarian crisis that impacts more than 259 million widows and their 584 million children worldwide. It was on June 23rd that Lord Loomba’s late mother, Shrimati Pushpa Wati Loomba, became a widow at an early age of 37, who faced hardships and prejudices being a widow but succeeded in educating her seven young children single-handedly.
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