Rs 9,000 crore gas-grid project for North East, Bengal: Dharmendra Pradhan
Agartala: A Rs 9,000 crore gas-grid project has been approved to transport natural gas among northeastern states and West Bengal, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said here on Saturday.
“There is huge amount of natural gas available in Assam, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast states is being tapped into for the Rs 9,265 crore North East Gas Grid (NEGG). The government has okayed this project to transport gas among the northeastern states as well as West Bengal via Siliguri,” Pradhan said inaugurating the Rs 215 crore Sonamura Gas Collecting station of Oil and Natural Gas CorporationNSE 1.71 % (ONGC).
