GAIL (India) announced that Hon'ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid the foundation stone of the Bokaro Angul section of the Jagdishpur Haldia & Bokaro Dhamra pipeline (JHBDPL), paving the way for the supply of natural gas for households, vehicles and industries in 11 districts of Odisha and Jharkhand.

The Bokaro Angul section being constructed by GAIL (India) will have a total length of 667 km, of which 367 km will be in Odisha and 300 km in Jharkhand. it will cover five districts in Odisha (Angul, Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and Debagarh) and six districts in Jharkhand (Bokaro, Ramgarh, Ranchi, Khunti, Gumla, Simdega).

The project cost of this section will be approx. Rs 3400 crores and is scheduled to be completed by December 2020.

The section is part of the 2650 kmlong JHBDPL project, popularly known as 'Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga' passing through the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal & Odisha. The pipeline is further being extended from Baruani (Bihar) to Guwahati (Assam) with a length of approx. 730 Km which will be a gateway for pipeline infrastructure in the North East.

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