Bengaluru: Despite demand, CBD lacks CNG filling station

BENGALURU: With the entry of Compressed Natural Gas-run quadricycles, drivers are slowly switching to environment-friendly vehicles. But there’s a hitch: lack of CNG-filling stations in the heart of the city.
Bengaluru is home to 1,257 CNG vehicles and more are expected to hit the roads in the coming days. But the dearth of filling stations in central business district (CBD) is hampering transition to the cleaner fuel.
GAIL Gas, a CNG provider, is finding it difficult to procure land for a filling station in CBD. At present, Bengaluru has 15 CNG filling stations, of which a majority are on the outskirts. Of the 1,257 CNG vehicles, including cars, taxis, buses, trucks and autorickshaws plying in Bengaluru, 715 are registered in Karnataka.
App-based aggregator Uber along with Bajaj Auto recently launched Quadricycle under the UberXS platform.