Bidding for city's gas network extended.

Oil regulator PNGRB has once again extended the last date of bidding for licences to retail CNG and piped cooking gas in 14 cities, including Bangalore and Pune, by two months to July 10.

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) had in September last year invited bids for development of city gas distribution (CGD) networks in Eranakulam in Kerala; Rangareddy/Medak, Nalgonda and Khammam in Andhra Pradesh; Bangalore rural and urban districts in Karnataka; Raigarh, Pune and Thane in Maharashtra; Daman; Dadar & Nagar Haveli; Shahjahanpur in UP; Guna in MP; Panipat in Haryana and Amritsar in Punjab.

Bids were due on February 11 but the regulator in January extended the deadline to May 12. PNGRB last week further extended the deadline to July 10. 'Keeping in view the requests received from various entities, the time schedule of the bid has been revised,' PNGRB said in a April 23 notice.

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