Correct Answer : Hardeep Singh Puri
Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas "Hardeep Singh Puri" inaugurated Asia's largest Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) plant in Lehragaga, in Punjab's Sangrur on Tuesday(18th Oct 2022).
Addressing the inaugural event of the CBG plant, Puri said the plant in Sangrur is just the beginning of India's master plan for a CBG-based rural economy and the government is taking all steps to promote the ecosystem around it.
The plant has been commissioned with a foreign direct investment of approximately Rs. 220 crores by Verbio AG, one of Germany's leading bio-energy companies.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and senior management from Verbio India Private Limited were also present at the inaugural ceremony.
The
CBG plant at
Sangrur is spread across an area of
20 acres.
The plant's present production is about
six tonnes per day but soon it
will process 300 tonnes of paddy straw per day to produce
33 TPD of compressed biogas using
eight digesters of 10,000 cubic meters..
Source : India Today
