North East Natural Gas Pipeline Grid

Cabinet approves Capital Grant as Viability Gap Funding to Indradhanush Gas Grid Limited for setting up the North East Natural Gas Pipeline Grid. MoPNG shall identify milestones for major activities for this project and link the same for releases of capital grant of the project. The Capital Grant will provide natural gas supplies to various types of consumers viz. Industrial, PNG(Domestic), CNG  (Transport) etc. and would immensely help in substituting the liquid fuels. The pipeline grid would ensure reliability and uninterrupted natural gas supplies to the consumers which otherwise gets severely affected due to various reasons in this part of the country.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

There would be seen some Socio-Economic and Environmental Benefits on the project. These could be development of industrial climate in eight states of the north-eastern region i.e. Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.  It would be seen reduction in the usage of kerosene, wood etc. due to increased usage of environment friendly fuel natural gas thereby improving the environment in the region and improvement in the standard of living of peoples living in the region.