Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the North East Gas Pipeline Grid.
The pipeline is to be constructed for around 1,656 km.
The gas pipeline grid is to be developed in eight states of the North East Region namely Manipur, Meghalaya, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Sikkim, Nagaland and Tripura.
The project is a joint venture of 5 Public sector units namely
ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited),
IOCL (Indian Oil Corporation Limited),
OIL (Oil India Limited),
GAIL (Gas Authority of India Limited) and
NRL (Numaligarh Refinery Limited).
The Joint Venture has been named IGGL (Indra Dhanush Gas Grid Limited).
The Government of India has approved Rs 5,559 crores funding for the construction of the grid.
The project will be monitored by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
The project is being implemented under the ambitious Urja Ganga Gas Pipeline Project.