New Delhi, March 31 -- March 31The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) has proposed a new tariff policy for long-distance pipelines to provide for charging lower rates to city gas entities that sell CNG for vehicles and piped cooking gas to households.

The PNGRB has issued a public consultation document for changing the zonal tariffs levied on pipelines that carry natural gas from domestic producing fields or sea ports in the case of imports, to users such as power plants, fertiliser units and city gas entities that sell it as CNG for sale to automobiles or pipe it to household kitchens for cooking purposes.

"In yet another far-reaching reform for bringing investments and to increase the gas consumption, especially in CNG a...