PM at Urja Sangam 2015

PM launches "Give it up" campaign for voluntarily giving up LPG subsidy

PM: Union Govt aims to extend reach of Piped Natural Gas (PNG) to 1 crore houses
in the next five years
appealed to well-to-do sections of Indian society to voluntarily give up LPG sub
sidy,
so that the benefit of the same could be shared more widely with poorer sections
of society
enhancing domestic production to reduce the energy import burden of the country
by at least 10 percent,
till 2022
the occasion of the platinum jubilee of India`s independence.

India, with one-sixth of the world`s population, should shoulder one-sixth of th

e world`s energy responsibility, hence contributing to global prosperity.
reforms were motivated by the quest for greater energy security, which is both a
necessity and responsibility
deregulation of diesel prices
ethanol blended petrol to help sugarcane farmers,
promotion of bio-diesel,
extension of the gas grid in eastern India,
Union Government aims to extend piped natural gas (PNG) to one crore houses over
the next five years.