Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga

Urja Ganga gas pipeline project was inaugurated by Prime Minister of India in October 2016 at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. The project is committed to provide the household members health safety by providing clean fuel with the piped gas to the locals of Varanasi and later to Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha. The seven main station cities include Varanasi, Patna, Bokaro, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar and Cuttack as the major beneficiaries of the project.

• The government also plans to create 25 industrial clusters in these states which can utilise the gas as fuel and generate employment in these areas. A pipeline of length 2540 km is under construction from the states of Uttar Pradesh to Odisha. The state of UP gets the gas line of length 338 km. Bihar state will get about 441 km long line. Jharkhand, a state in east India, gets 500 KM long and another state in eastern India, West Bengal, will have the pipe line of length 542 km and Odisha gets benefited by 718 km pipeline as per the specifications of project details issued in public.
• GAIL currently operates on 11,000-km of pipeline network and markets two-thirds of all natural gas sold in the country. Presently, around 1,050 km of pipeline projects along Varanasi-Dobhi-Patna/Barauni, Auraiya-Phulpur and other last-mile connectivity are completed during the 2018-19 fiscal year.