GAIL puts West Bengal on India’s gas-map, hurl in greener, cheaper fuel for homes, automobiles
GAIL (India) Ltd, the nation’s biggest gas utility, has put West Bengal on the gas map of India after it completed laying a Rs 2,433-crore pipeline that will bring to the state cooking fuel that is cheaper than LPG and CNG that costs less than petrol and diesel, and fuel to produce urea for all its requirement.
The 348-kilometer pipeline from Dobhi in Bihar to Durgapur in West Bengal is part of the Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga project to take environment-friendly natural gas to India’s eastern parts which hereto was left untouched by the benefits of gas-based economy.
“The government’s consistent push for a gas-based economy that not just reduces carbon emissions but provides reliable and convenient fuel has opened new paradigms and the Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga is one of them,” GAIL Chairman and Managing Director Manoj Jain said.
The massive project connects the end point of legacy gas pipelines at Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh to eastern states of Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha.
While GAIL had previously commissioned a pipeline up to Bihar, “the Prime Minister will on Sunday dedicate to the nation the Dobhi-Durgapur section,” he said.
The pipeline will provide gas to Matix fertiliser plant at Durgapur, which can produce “the entire requirement of urea of West Bengal,” he said.
