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The scheme is in the pattern of the one inaugurated in Mumbai in 2006 by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. It was initiated by the Mahanagar Gas Limited to encourage the use of CNG in the city.

After its introduction in the Capital, the scheme will be extended to the National Capital Region areas like Faridabad, Gurgaon, Sonepat, Panipat and Gautam Budh Nagar.

THE SCHEME

• Insurance cover of Rs 1.5 lakh to the family in case of death and graded compensation for partial or total responsibility
  
• Reimbursement of upto Rs 10,000 for medical expenditure in case of fracture or injury
  
• Rs 25,000 as children's education allowance for one school or college-going student

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• The beneficiaries have to submit a copy of the FIR copy and in case of death, a death certificate.
  
• Necessary documents regarding permits and permissions.

• The NCR has around 2,50,000 CNG vehicles
  
• Nearly 400 cars convert to CNG every month
  
• There are 163 CNG stations in the Capital Delhi government is finalising land for 50 more.
  
• Incorporated in 1998 as a joint venture of GAIL (India) Ltd and BPCL along with the Delhi government, the IGL is the only CNG distributer in the city

Never take YADAV TAXI from Palam Vihar, and this is especially true for girls.

They could be offering you reasonable rates, but the owner and drivers are too indecent, and not at all well mannered - so I would strongly not patronize this cab service.

I had weird experience with them, and realized that these people will go stoop so low in their behaviour that there is not extent ....

Days after the Haryana govern ment issued eight new radio taxi contracts for the IT city, local taxi operators are fighting an advertising blitz, trying to outdo each other by reducing fares.

Till just a few weeks ago, it cost at least Rs 350 to travel from South City to the IGI Airport. Today, taxis charge between Rs 250 and Rs 300 for the same distance.

For the past fortnight or so, Gurgaon papers have also started looking fatter, for inserted in them are some four or five pamphlets every day, advertising rates and special features of different "taxi stands". "We have to keep the competition and market in mind," says Manoj Yadav, a taxi service provider based in South City I. "With the increase in number of taxi providers, prices are boun