Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan assures completion of Kochi-Bengaluru gas line soon

Having received much appreciation from the Centre for completing the Kochi-Mangaluru GAIL pipeline after overcoming protests, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the first leg of the Kochi-Bengaluru line would be also completed soon.

Speaking at the online inaugural function of the Kochi-Mangaluru line, Vijayan said that work of the 99-kilometre Koottanad-Walayar-Coimbatore line, which extends to Bengaluru, was progressing and assured people that it would be completed soon.

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that completion of Kochi – Mangaluru pipeline had shown that if the states and the Centre stood united, anything could be achieved, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that the project was an example of cooperative federalism as the project could not have happened without the active support of the Kerala and Karnataka governments.