Free CNG at Cremation Grounds by East Delhi Municipal

East Delhi Municipal Corporation provides free CNG-supply for cremation of dead bodies at two of the cremation-grounds namely Jwala Nagar and Karkardooma coming under it.

Similar steps should be taken by other two Municipal Corporations of Delhi so that CNG may be supplied free-of-cost for all the cremation-grounds in Delhi. There should be a uniform policy to supply free CNG for all the cremation grounds in the country.

Cost of CNG for the purpose can be borne by civic bodies, state-governments or even government-owned Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL). Non-Government-Organisation (NGO) managing Delhi’s biggest cremation-ground Nigambodh Ghat has offered free CNG-cremation if it gets free supply of CNG.

Cremation by CNG is environmental friendly conserving wood, and thus should be encouraged by all government agencies. Public-sector-organisations are authorised to spend a part of their budgets for social and charitable purposes. IGL can bear cost of free CNG-supply for cremation-purposes as part of its social obligation to the society, which will be a negligible fraction of its total CNG-sale.