Now, refuel your CNG car at 15 BEST bus depots
Mahanagar Gas Limited
has collaborated with BEST to launch
MGL Tez
, a refuelling facility, at 15 bus depots across the city. This will ensure private cars, whose numbers are over 5 lakh in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, besides trucks, tempos and other vehicles do not queue up at the regular CNG refuelling outlets and can book slots at the bus depots between 8 am and 8 pm daily.
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This will reduce their wait time in refuelling queues and at the same time ease congestion on roads arising due to vehicles waiting in queue on roads, said a senior MGL official.
Following pilot project at Ghatkopar and Goregaon depots, MGL Tez facility will now be extended at 13 more depots located at Anik, Deonar, Dharavi, Dindoshi, Gorai, Magathane, Majas, Mulund, Mumbai Central, Poisar, Pratiksha Nagar, Santacruz, and Wadala, for utilising the CNG infrastructure at these depots which are spread across Mumbai, said MGL deputy managing director Sanjay Shende.
The CNG vehicular population in MMR has crossed the one-million mark,
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