PM Modi: Working to spice up fuel connectivity at an unprecedented degree

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated GAIL’s 450-km Kochi-Mangaluru pure fuel pipeline, with a capability to move 12 million normal cubic meters of pure fuel per day.
Constructed at a value of Rs 3,000 crore, he stated the pipeline is a part of the federal government’s One Nation One Gas Grid programme, aimed toward boosting the share of pure fuel in India’s major power basket from 6.3 per cent at present to fifteen per cent by 2030.
The pipeline would scale back power prices for the poor, center class and trade, assist provide fuel to metropolis fuel distribution techniques, enhance improvement of CNG transportation in lots of cities, provide low-cost power to fertiliser, chemical and petrochemical crops beside lowering air pollution in each Kerala and Karnataka, Modi stated.

“The pipeline will have a positive impact on the economic growth of these two states,” the Prime Minister stated. He added that the nation was now working in direction of boosting connectivity, “whether or not it’s freeway connectivity, railway connectivity, metro connectivity, air connectivity, water connectivity, digital connectivity or fuel connectivity, “at an unprecedented degree.
Addressing the occasion, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stated the completion of the pipeline was a promise by his authorities to the individuals of Kerala. —WITH INPUTS FROM THIRUVANANTHAPURaM