{"id":16171,"date":"2016-10-01T12:19:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T12:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=16171"},"modified":"2016-10-01T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T12:19:20","slug":"development-gas-infrastructure-eastern-part-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/development-gas-infrastructure-eastern-part-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Development of Gas Infrastructure in Eastern part of the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Which of the following project will connect Eastern part of the country with National Gas Grid?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) JHBDPL Gas Pipeline project.<br \/>\n(b) JSPL gas grid project.<br \/>\n(c) Nunmati-Siliguri pipeline project.<br \/>\n(d) Salaya-Mathura Pipeline project<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 21 September 2016 Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved viability gap funding \/ partial capital grant at 40 percent (Rs. 5,176 crore) of the estimated capital cost of Rs. 12,940 crore to GAIL for development of 2539 km long Jagdishpur-Haidia and Bokaro-Dhamra Gas Pipeline (JHBDPL) project.<\/li>\n<li>Government of India has taken this historic decision to provide Capital Support for developing this gas pipeline. JHBDPL project will connect Eastern part of the country with National Gas Grid.<\/li>\n<li>It will ensure the availability of clean and eco-friendly fuel i.e. Natural Gas to the industrial, commercial, domestic and transport sectors in the States of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal.<\/li>\n<li>This Capital Grant will encourage the supply of eco-friendly fuel at affordable tariffs to industries and will encourage industrial development in these states.<\/li>\n<li>Further, the CCEA has approved the simultaneous development of City Gas Distribution (CGD) networks in cities namely Varanasi, Patna, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Cuttack etc. en-route of JHBDPL project.<\/li>\n<li>These distribution networks will be developed by GAIL in collaboration with the concerned State Governments.<\/li>\n<li>It will bring clean cooking fuel at the door step of Domestic households as well as provide clean fuel to transport sector in the eastern region.<\/li>\n<li>About 1.25 crore population living in these cities will be directly benefitted by the establishment of these CGD networks.<\/li>\n<li>All these projects will generate direct as well as indirect employment for about 21,000 people and will boost socio-economic development in the eastern part of the country.<\/li>\n<li>Cabinet earlier had approved the revival of three Fertiliser Units (FCIL- Gorakhpur, HFCL- Barauni and FCIL-Sindri) along the route of this pipeline project.<\/li>\n<li>On revival, these units will be the anchor gas customers for JHBDPL project and gas to these plants will be supplied under the Gas Pooling Scheme for urea sector at pooled price.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=150960\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=150960<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/oil-and-gas\/cabinet-approves-capital-grant-to-gail-for-development-of-gas-infrastructure-in-eastern-india\/54443291\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/oil-and-gas\/cabinet-approves-capital-grant-to-gail-for-development-of-gas-infrastructure-in-eastern-india\/54443291<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following project will connect Eastern part of the country with National Gas Grid? (a) JHBDPL Gas Pipeline project. (b) JSPL gas grid project. (c) Nunmati-Siliguri pipeline project. (d) Salaya-Mathura Pipeline project Ans: (a) Related facts: On 21 September 2016 Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[2497],"class_list":["post-16171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-project-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}