Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday laid the foundation stones for new Dhamra - Angul 36 inch main line and Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Paradip 12 inch spur line at Haripur, Sukinda in Jajpur district.
The 600-km-long natural gas pipeline project is a new year gift for the people of coastal districts of Odisha from the Narendra Modi-led Government at the Centre.
He said gas would be imported from countries like Australia, Katar in cape size vessels and supplied to Allahabad of Uttar Pradesh through 2500 km long pipeline. Out of that, 600-km-long natural gas pipeline would be constructed in Odisha covering 13 districts and connecting major industrial clusters.
This will add more values to the minerals of the mineral rich State like Odisha. As of now, steel produced in Odisha was limited to construction of houses and angle making.
But now the steel and aluminium which will be produced in Odisha using gas will be of high quality and lead to manufacturing of automobiles and Odisha can be a centre of high quality steel production, he said.