Higher fuel prices continue to add to the woes of the commoners across the country as well as the state. The 4 districts in the state do not have even 10 CNG stations.With just 2 CNG stations, Hisar emerges on the top in terms of least numbers CNG stations followed by Jhajjar and Yamunangar with 4 and 8 CNG stations. Due to being an industrial district, the movement of vehicles is more in Hisar. There are 6 CNG stations in Jhajjar district of the state.The situation in Panchkula, which is adjacent to state capital Chandigarh, is not much better. There are also a few CNG stations here. The information received states that Panchkula along with Sirmaur, Shimla and Solan districts of Himachal Pradesh have 9 CNG stations jointly.
Gurugram, which adjoins the National capital Delhi emerges on the top with 47 CNG stations- 32 in Gurugram and 15 in Gurugra IGL followed by the neighbouring Faridabad district with 29 CNG stations. Further, the statistics revealed that there are 25 and 24 CNG stations in Rewari and Sonipat respectively. According to statistics, the number of CNG stations in the state is the maximum number of 47 in the village district falling in the National Capital Region. Of these, 32 are in Gurugram and 15 are in Gurugram CGD. : Bhiwani Mahendragarh and Charkhi Dadri have a combined 25 filling stations. The Information further depicted that there are about a dozen districts in the state where the number of CNG stations is between 10 to 20. The number of CNG stations in Jind and Sonipat AAA area and Jind district is 20 jointly. Besides, the number of CNG stations in Panipat, Rohtak and CM city Karnal is 15, 12 and 18 respectively. Apart from this, there are 17 CNG stations jointly in Sirsa, Fatehabad and Mansa districts of Punjab while there are a total of 29 CNG stations jointly in Palwal and Nuh districts of Mewat.To get rid of the problem of high prices of Patrol, people are heading towards the CNG based and electric vehicles rapidly during few last months. According to vehicle market experts, there is a high demand for CNG and electric vehicles in Haryana.
Due to the high cost of fuel per litre, people are finding themselves unable and helpless to bear the cost of fuel. Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) was introduced to overcome the problem of high petrol rates and in wake of this, an acute spike is being reported in the number of people having CNG vehicles in the market.