Gas transmission by India’s Gujarat State Petronet Ltd NSE 0.24 % will rise by about a quarter in the next fiscal year starting from April as it links northern regions to an existing grid in the western state, a company official said on Tuesday. The 930-km (578-miles) pipeline linking Mehsana in Gujarat to Bathinda in the northern state of Punjab at a cost of 55 billion rupees ($739 million) will be ready by March, the firm’s joint managing director, Sanjeev Kumar, told Reuters.
“Around 80% of the physical work of the pipeline has been completed,” Kumar said in a telephone interview. India’s coronavirus lockdown hit construction of the pipeline, with a daily capacity of 30 million cubic meters (mmscmd), delaying it past an initial completion date of December.
