Dibrugarh: Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated the state’s first CNG station on Saturday at Chowkidinghee, Dibrugarh.
Assam’s first CNG station starts a new era of cost effective and environment friendly fuel which will help reduce air pollution. The station is just the beginning of clean and affordable transportation systems in the region: CM pic.twitter.com/dF5k1X4WQ8
— Chief Minister Assam (@CMOfficeAssam) August 17, 2019
The station has been installed by the Assam Gas Company. After Tripura, Assam has become the second state in northeast to get a CNG filling station.
The inaugural program was also attended by Rameswar Teli, Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industries, Chandra Mohan Patowary, Minister of Industries, Commerce & Transport, Bolin Chetia, Chairman, Assam Gas Co Ltd, Ashok Kr Bhattarai, Chairman, ASTC, Indra Gogoi, Vice-Chairman, Assam Gas Co Ltd.
