State-owned GAIL India Ltd said it has started pipeline construction work in West Bengal for providing fuel supply to Matix Fertilizers, Durgapur. The project is part of the Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga pipeline project that spans from Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh to Haldia in West Bengal and Bokaro in Jharkhand and Dhamra in Odisha.
The company said in a statement that the Jagdishpur-Haldia & Bokaro-Dhamra Natural Gas Pipeline project is being executed on a fast track basis.
A total of 555-km long pipeline with an approved cost of 2,700 crore rupees in West Bengal will pass through eight districts of Puruliya, Bankura, Burdwan, Nadia, Hooghly, Howrah, East Medinapur and 24 North Paragana, it said.
The prestigious 2,655-km JHBDPL project was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July 2015 and is targeted to be completed by the end of 2020. The project will also provide clean energy to households and transportation in the cities en-route the pipeline.