<span style="color: #222222;">The Government today gave nod to major reforms in the marketing of Natural Gas in the country.<br />'' <br />'' The Cabinet, under the chairmanship of Prime Minister, approved the reforms to push the usage of Natural Gas. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Briefing the media in New Delhi, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that the government will initiate standardised e-bidding for bringing transparency in the price of Natural Gas in the country.<br />'' <br />'' Railway Minister Piyush Goyal informed that the Cabinet has also given its approval for the revised estimate cost for East West Corridor of the Kolkata Metro Rail Project.<br />'' <br />'' Mr Goyal said that the project, with an estimated cost of nearly 8 thousand 575 crore rupees, will be open for the public by December 2021. He said the total Route length of the East-West Metro Corridor in Kolkata will be 16.6 kilometre and will have 12 stations.<br />'' <br />'' He said that the project will ease traffic congestion, enhance urban connectivity and provide cleaner mobility solution to lakhs of daily commuters in Kolkata.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The cabinet also gave its approval for signing a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) in the field of cyber-security between India and Japan.<br />'' <br />'' The MoC will enhance cooperation in areas of mutual interest, which in­cludes capacity building in the area of cyberspace, protection of critical infrastructure, cooperation in emerging technologies, sharing information on cyber security threats and malicious cyber activities.<br />'' <br />'' It will lead to development of joint mechanism for practical cooperation in order to mitigate cyber threats to the security of Information Communication Technology infrastructure.<br />'' <br />'' Another MoU was signed between Zoological Survey of India and its Canadian Counterpart on bar coding of faunal Genomes.<br />'' <br />'' Mr Javadekar said that the Cabinet ratified the Stockholm convention by banning 7 more chemicals in the country which pose substantial health risk. The cabinet also decided to launch a public campaign on Coronovirus from tomorrow.<br />'' <br />'' The Union Cabinet today congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for entering in 20th consecutive year as an elected head of a government. I & B Minister Prakash Javadekar said, Mr Modi brought reforms in governance, reforms in major sectors and gave corruption-free government.<br />'' <br />'' He said, Prime Minister raised the standard of living of poor people and deprived sections.</span><br />