New Delhi, July 2 -- The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is working on an integrated GOBARdhan scheme aimed at addressing key challenges facing the compressed biogas (CBG) sector, including feedstock availability, offtake assurance, pricing certainty and long-term policy visibility to primarily strengthen India's energy security, Alok Tripathi, Joint Secretary (Gas), Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, said on Thursday.

"We are trying to address those issues and now we will be coming up with an integrated scheme and the Ministry of Petroleum has been mandated to basically develop this scheme, which we are going to call the GOBARdhan scheme. Through this scheme, we would like to take care of the challenges which have been highlig...