City to get first auto LPG station

HYDERABAD: Even as concerns over increasing air pollution from automobiles in the city remain unattended to by the government, the Indian Oil Corporation Limited has taken the first step in providing south India’s first auto LPG dispensing station at Kompally on the city outskirts.
The LPG dispensing station, will be a one-stop shop for installing dual fuel kits on petrol vehicles, Venugopal Rao, who runs the yet to be inaugurated facility — Sree Venkateswara Service Station — said on Friday.Though LPG cylinders are being used by some vehicle owners to fuel their cars, this was illegal, Venugopal Rao said, explaining that according to the rules, a cylinder has to be fixed to the vehicle and should be part of the fuel system. The LPG dispensing station is scheduled to be inaugurated by home minister T Devender Goud on August 12.
An IOC official said on the anvil are three more such stations — at Moula Ali, Medchal and at Timmapur in Mahabubnagar district.