nearly seven lakh vehicles in the region depend on cng for fuel mumbai the cng shortage crisis continued to affect pumps in mumbai on saturday with nearly 40 autos kaalipeeli taxis and some appbased cabs staying off roads in the morning public transport too took a hit although best buses had been refilled with cng late night to avoid inconvenience the problem was brought under control by afternoon with just a couple of pumps continuing to remain shut oil company sources said the technical problem at the ongc gas processing facility in uran was resolved in the morning but it will take some time for operations to be fully restored the mahanagar gas ltd will also have to clean and restart the systems which were affected due to the technical fault and this could possibly take 12 to 15 hours said a source adding that the situation could normalise by early sunday morning but if this did not happen the source stated that the public transport may continue to be affected on sunday as well advt read alsocng pumps in mmr run dry cabs autos hit hard nearly seven lakh vehicles in the region depend on cng for fuel and this mainly comprises three lakh private cars and over three lakh autos besides buses private cabs and taxis some staterun buses also depended on cng for daily run the situation in the western suburbs was bad early saturday morning at a few pumps in kandivliborivli area the queue was so long that it took two to four hours to refill cng said mumbai rickshawmens union leader thamby kurien a private car owner who had gone to refill cng at a sion pump on friday night said that he was able to do so but it was mixed gas and it cost more than cng he said however mgl sources said that there was no other gas being distributed at any pump except for cng by somit sen tnn published on aug 18 2019 at 0951 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app mumbai autos off roads shortage of cng taxis off roads fc sion oil and natural gas corporation cng homenewsindustryshortage of cng keeps 40 taxis autos off roads in mumbai