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Chennai : In a bid keep the environment clean, the Tamil Nadu government has proposed that all autorickshaws in the state, running on petrol, will now use Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).
At a function here, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi presented ten of the 8000 autorickshaw permits to beneficiaries on Aug 12, a state government release here said.
These vehicles will run on LNG and the state government was taking steps to make all autorickshaws running on petrol LNG-complaint, while placing importance on environment. The conversion will be done in a phased manner.
Chennai alone had 29 LNG refilling stations. As many as 3100 persons in Chennai and 4900 elsewhere in the state were issued permits today, the release said.
Autorickshaws play an important role in the private transportation sector in the state with the yellow-painted three-wheeler criss-crossing almost every street of Chennai.
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