GAIL plans to build smart villages along Jagdishpur-Haldia pipeline

NEW DELHI: GAIL is engaging with local communities early on and planning to build `smart villages` along its proposed Jagdishpur-Haldia pipeline to ensure the project does not suffer the same fate as its Kochi-Bengaluru-Mangaluru pipeline, which has been stuck for years as the company has been unable to obtain right of way from most landowners.

 

The state-run company, India`s largest natural gas pipeline operator, has revived the 2,050-km pipeline project after eight years of uncertainty following Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s push to get cleaner fuel to eastern India even though the source of the gas, customers and the funding for the project remain shaky.