{"id":36940,"date":"2017-12-22T11:18:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T11:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=36940"},"modified":"2017-12-22T11:18:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T11:18:39","slug":"first-lpg-bottling-facility-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/first-lpg-bottling-facility-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"First LPG bottling facility (plant)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently, Centre has sanctioned Rs 75 crore to which one of the following northeast states for setting up a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) bottling plant?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Arunachal Pradesh<br \/>\n(b) Meghalaya<br \/>\n(c) Assam<br \/>\n(d) Nagaland<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (b)<br \/>\nRelated facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On December 9, 2017, a MoU was signed between the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and the Government of Meghalaya in Shillong.<\/li>\n<li>Accordingly, the central government sanctioned 75 crores for Meghalaya.<\/li>\n<li>This sanctioned is for that the first LPG bottling (Kupharian) plant can be set up in Meghalaya.<\/li>\n<li>This step will help increase the clean fuel&#8217;s penetration, especially in the rural areas of the state.<\/li>\n<li>The bottling plant will have annual capacity of 13,000 metric tonnes.<\/li>\n<li>It is noteworthy that the LPG penetration in Meghalaya is the lowest in the North East region.<\/li>\n<li>For the said reason Centre has decided to implement the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in the state in full swing.<\/li>\n<li>Only 27 per cent of the households in the state are linked with LPG connectivity which is much below the national average.<\/li>\n<li>At present there are only 49 LPG distributors in the state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/news\/9307753_Meghalaya-to-get-its-first-LPG-bottling-facility.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/news\/9307753_Meghalaya-to-get-its-first-LPG-bottling-facility.html <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/meghalaya-to-get-its-first-lpg-bottling-facility\/1\/1106847.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/meghalaya-to-get-its-first-lpg-bottling-facility\/1\/1106847.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently, Centre has sanctioned Rs 75 crore to which one of the following northeast states for setting up a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) bottling plant? (a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Meghalaya (c) Assam (d) Nagaland Answer: (b) Related facts On December 9, 2017, a MoU was signed between the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":36606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[2497],"class_list":["post-36940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-project-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}