PUNE: The Maharashtra Natural Gas Limited has requested the town transportation utility to clean the Rs49.26-crore dues in just two weeks, also it might stop providing CNG into the latter.
In a brand new letter into the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML), the Maharashtra Natural Gas Limited (MNGL) requested it to become prepared for partial suspension of CNG distribution from June 18 when the dues weren’t cleared.
Senior MNGL officials maintained they wouldn’t completely block the source of CNG because agencies of their PMPML were crucial, however, the thought was to reduce the distribution gradually in the event of non-payment.
TimesViewBus commuters should by no means suffer in such hard times due to differences between the two government bodies over non invasive of dues.
The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) along with the Maharashtra Natural Gas Limited (MNGL) should properly resolve the payment issue, continued for a long time.
The civic bodies must regularise their donations into the PMPML, allowing it to fulfill its own payment commitments.There have been 800 PMPML-owned CNG buses and 750 leased CNG buses at the transportation utility’s fleet.
The CNG buses assume greater importance today since a litre of petrol now prices Rs93.05 at Pune.
CNG is priced in Rs56.60 per litre.
The dilemma of PMPML’s dues had consumed last month as well as all the MNGL threatening to block the CNG supply.
The PMPML had subsequently paid Rs5 crore into the MNGL.
“We cannot compare the present situation with this in May.
The marketplace has now opened.
Over 500 buses are on the street, carrying one lakh passengers every day.
In the event the CNG distribution stops partially, we will maintain the soup,” that a PMPML official stated.
Rajendra Jagtap, the chairman and managing director of this PMPML, told TOI that the bus services could be impacted when the CNG distribution has been discontinued or curtailed.
“With only 450 diesel-run buseswe will not have the ability to work if the CNG distribution stops.
The PMPML endured earnings reduction of Rs75 crore in the past two weeks.
By April, we obtained Rs690 crore in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the majority of it had been utilized for payment of salary.
Even the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has really paid us only Rs12 crore and there’s a shortfall of Rs30 crore in their own part,” Jagtap stated, adding he had asked the PMC for further funds ahead of time.
“The final major payment we made into the MNGL was February — Rs30 crore — and also the outstanding has been introduced to Rs17 crore.
Ever since that time, we’ve run into significant reductions,” Jagtap stated.