PNGRB drops 7 cities from license bidding for retail CNG

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) has dropped seven out of the 11 cities it had identified for the bidding of licences for retailing compressed natural gas (CNG) due to stakeholder feedback. It has dropped Bhubaneswar in Odisha, Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, Coimbatore and Chennai in Tamil Nadu and Guwahati in Assam from the bidding round. After this, only Jaipur and Udaipur in Rajasthan, Solapur in Maharashtra, Davanagari in Karnataka and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh remain in the bid round.