India's response to Energy Supply Crunch

The Centre is looking to boost the production and adoption of compressed biogas amid a global liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply squeeze. The government will scale up the ongoing biogas programme and streamline all initiatives aimed at promoting biogas, which is a sustainable alternative to natural gas, and if scaled up, can help reduce import dependence for LNG, said Neeraj Mittal, secretary at the ministry of petroleum and natural gas, at a conference titled Energy Security: Driving India's Next Wave of Gas Demand organized by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) and Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL) in New Delhi.