Agartala: The government has given its consent to around Rs 9,000-crore gas-grid project to transport natural gas among north-eastern states and West Bengal, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Saturday.
Pradhan was launching the Rs 215 crore Sonamura Gas Collecting station of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). "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. The gas-grid is a joint venture five oil and natural gas companies, which are Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Oil India Ltd (OIL), Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL), Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) and ONGC, an ONGC official said.