The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) may rationalise the minimum work programme (MWP) commitments city gas companies made in the previous years, which would push companies with lower commitments to raise household gas connection targets while bringing relief to firms that promised high targets but are now facing penalties for missing those”PNGRB over the last 15 years has had an ever-evolving regime for the minimum work programme commitments,” PNGRB chairman Anil Kumar Jain told ET.
In the first and second city gas licensing rounds, MWP commitments were 20-30% of total households in a licences area with an understanding that if so many households were connected by the distributor, others would automatically follow, he said. “In the rounds that followed, MWP commitments got extremely diluted to less than even 10% of the number of households. So, that has denied PNGRB the tool to drive (domestic PNG expansion).”
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