City gas distribution (CGD) player, AG&P Pratham, which has commissioned 201 CNG stations across five states, will expand to 420 stations in FY23.

The target is to serve 1 lakh households in the current fiscal. Excerpts:

We have commissioned 200 CNG stations across five states, which is a milestone for us. On August 23, we inaugurated our 201st station in Mysuru. On ground, we have deployed Rs. 1,500 crore. We have created last mile infrastructure for around 62,000 households, of which 18,000 have been commercialised. Besides 325 km of trunk pipeline has been laid. By the end of FY23, we expect to lay 750 km of pipeline, with 420 CNG stations and service 1 lakh households at an outlay of Rs. 2,400 crore.

Overall, Rajasthan is a more developed market with an ecosystem and awareness. In Jodhpur, you don’t have to explain what CNG is. But, when we started about 12-14 months back in Ramanathapuram, it was the first CNG station for Tamil Nadu. In Karnataka, there was no station outside Bengaluru . In Kerala, CNG is available only in Ernakulam. Almost 80-85 per cent of our capex is in south India, where we have 11 GAs.

In the South, we are focusing on the ecosystem, and so you have to get the dealers to start selling CNG vehicles and retro-fitters to open shops. Then, you have to parallelly spend a lot of time and energy on building awareness about CNG. There is better awareness in North India. There are exceptions too. For instance, we have a GA in Gulbarga, and there is better awareness about CNG as they are close to Hyderabad, which has CNG. So with an ecosystem, it becomes easy.

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