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Back to bicycle age!
Veerappa Moily Urges People To Travel By Bus To Save Fuel. As part of its efforts to conserve fuel, the Union Government proposes to declare one day in a week as ‘Bus Day’ when all employees will use public transport, Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily said on Tuesday.
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New Delhi (IANS): As part of its efforts to conserve fuel, the Union Government proposes to declare one day in a week as ‘Bus Day’ when all employees will use public transport, Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily said on Tuesday. "One day in a week is to be declared as 'Bus Day' as part of the Petroleum Ministry's mega fuel conservation campaign," Moily said.
"I have also urged all chief ministers, major PSU heads and heads of different central ministries to declare one day of the week as 'bus day' on which all may be encouraged to utilise only public transport," Moily said while unveiling his ministry's conservation campaign aimed at cutting oil demand.
Moily also said that he had requested the Urban Development Ministry to introduce a scheme under which free cycles would be on offer in select cities. He wants everyone to take to cycles as far as possible. Petrol pumps will provide fuel saving tips, while housewives will be given lessons on fuel conservation. As part of the campaign, the government will conduct programmes like LPG (cooking gas) clinics, 'kisan melas' and driver training programmes.
The petroleum minister had earlier sent the Prime Minister an action plan to cut India's oil import bill by $20 billion by raising fuel prices and adopting fuel conservation measures. Clarifying that as on date there was no proposal of a diesel hike, Moily said that with hardening of international crude prices, the country cannot afford to be complacent.The rising fuel subsidy bill is expected to cross Rs.1,80,000 crore in the current fiscal. Crude oil price per barrel on Monday stood at $107.47, or Rs.6,719.02, at the exchange rate of Rs.62.52 a US dollar per barrel.
No hike in diesel prices
New Delhi (PTI): The government appears to have developed cold feet on increasing diesel and cooking gas (LPG) prices, with Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily saying there was no proposal to hike rates just yet. Moily insisted that no proposal has been moved to the Cabinet for raising diesel rates.
