The Prime Minister dedicated LPG import terminal to nation.
It is 348 km Dobhi – Durgapur Natural Gas Pipeline section.
It is part of the Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga project.
Totally, the pipeline length of 2540 km is under construction from the states of Uttar Pradesh to Odisha.
Now this project has put West Bengal in to the project map.
It aims to provide piped cooking gas to the households of Varanasi within next two years and to millions of others in neighbour states after one more year.
Length wise distribution
The state of UP gets the gas line of length 338 km.
Bihar state will get about 441 km long line.
Jharkhand gets 500 KM long.
West Bengal will have the pipe line of length 542 km