Bhopal Municipal Corporation has appointed garbage collectors 415 Have bought new CNG garbage vehicles. – Photo: Social Media Expansion Municipal Corporation Bhopal is moving towards green and clean energy. Corporation has appointed door-to-door garbage collectors to check rising fuel cost and diesel theft Purchased new CNG garbage vehicles. With these vehicles, the corporation will save Rs one crore every year. Apart from this, the Municipal Corporation is also going to convert old diesel garbage vehicles into CNG. According to the municipal officials, each garbage vehicle is given nine-ten liters of diesel every day. At present the average of these vehicles is kilometer/litre. If CNG vehicles are used in their place, then one liter of CNG gas will give 18 kilometer Will get mileage of In such a situation, there will be a saving of three to four hundred rupees from one vehicle per day. Along with this, the cost of diesel vehicle is costlier than CNG. If the corporation had to pay eight lakh rupees to buy a diesel garbage vehicle, the same CNG vehicle has been purchased for six lakh rupees. In such a way 18 Municipal Corporation’s 1.25 crore rupees were saved in the purchase of vehicles. However, as an experiment, the Municipal Corporation bought 18 CNG garbage vehicles last two years. Were. Four and a half million Will be spent
1676726675 Earlier the officials wanted to convert all vehicles into electric vehicles, but converting diesel vehicles into e-vehicles costs three lakh rupees. While converting to CNG costs one lakh rupees. Therefore, the corporation authorities have decided to convert these vehicles into CNG. Four crore fifty lakh rupees will be spent in this. At the same time, this money will also be recovered in eight months. CNG pump also Opening consideration
Be aware that the Municipal Corporation is going to increase its dependence on CNG vehicles. For this, CNG pumps are also being opened in various areas of the city by signing an agreement with Think Gas. Presently CNG pump has been set up near Bairagarh Bus Depot, Arif Nagar, Hoshangabad Road under Veer Savarkar Bridge and Link Road No-3 near Mata Mandir, while it is proposed to open in Bhanpur Khanti. Along with this, CNG pumps are to be opened at five other places. These CNG pumps are being opened in PPP ie Public Private Partnership mode. These will be operated by a private company, in return a fixed amount will be given by the company to the Municipal Corporation. Corporation vehicles will get fuel at seven percent less price in CNG pump. On the other hand, the company will deposit three percent of the earnings on filling CNG gas in private vehicles as royalty to the Municipal Corporation. Green and Clean Energy boost

Bhopal Municipal Corporation Commissioner KVS Chaudhary Kolsani said that CNG vehicles are being purchased by the Municipal Corporation to promote green and clean energy in the capital. CNG pumps are being set up. Soon other diesel vehicles are also planned to be converted to CNG.