New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate the Kochi – Mangaluru Natural Gas Pipeline to the nation by way of video conferencing on Tuesday.
According to a launch of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), PM Modi will inaugurate Kochi-Mangaluru pure fuel pipeline at 11 am at this time. The occasion will mark an necessary milestone in the direction of the creation of ‘One Nation One Gas Grid’.
Prime Minister Modi has stated that the ” futuristic mission will positively affect many individuals.”
Governors and Chief Ministers of Karnataka and Kerala, together with Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan will even be current on the event.
According to the PMO, the 450 km lengthy pipeline has been constructed by GAIL (India) Ltd. It has a transportation capability of 12 Million Metric Standard Cubic Metres per day and can carry pure fuel from the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Regasification Terminal at Kochi (Kerala) to Mangaluru (Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka), whereas passing via Ernakulam, Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasaragod districts.
The whole price of the mission was about Rs 3000 crore and its building created over 12 lakh man-days of employment. Laying of the pipeline was an engineering problem because the route of the pipeline necessitated it to cross water our bodies at greater than 100 places. This was executed via a particular method referred to as the Horizontal Directional Drilling technique.
The pipeline will provide environment-friendly and reasonably priced gas within the type of Piped Natural Gas (PNG) to households and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) to the transportation sector. It will even provide Natural Gas to business and industrial items throughout the districts alongside the pipeline. Consumption of cleaner gas will assist in bettering air high quality by curbing air air pollution.
