Dharmendra Pradhan launches IGL prepaid smart card for CNG consumers

New Delhi, Oct 11: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday launched IGL prepaid smart card (Retail and Fleet) for CNG consumers and said that it will be easily available and benefit common man in saving time in transactions at the CNG stations. Launching the cards he said this is an important step taken by GAIL and IGL for making life easy for residents of Delhi. Mr Pradhan said the initiative is part of Digital India Campaign envisaged by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take country forward with the help of technology. He said his Ministry is making every effort to use technology and methods to provide time saving and easily accessible customer service to consumers. Referring to the challenge of environmental pollution, Mr Pradhan said answer to Delhi’s pollution lies in migrating its power plants, industrial units besides domestic and transport usages to clean fuel. He said the Government is firm in its commitment to provide clean CNG and PNG for cooking and transport at customer’s convenience to promote Gas Based Economy. Mr Pradhan also distributed smart cards to some of the fleet as well as retail customers of IGL. He also saw demonstration of smart cards transaction after fuel dispensing at the CNG station. UNI