New Delhi: The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the Rs 4,500 crore, 1,000 km-long gas pipeline that connects Dabhol in Maharashtra to Bangalore in Karnataka on Tuesday December 3

The project has been developed by the state-run Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL). 

The prime minister dedicated the project to the nation at the inaugural ceremony of the 8th Asia Gas Partnership Summit organized jointly by GAIL and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). The project has a design capacity of 16 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCMD) of natural gas that can produce 3,000 mega watt of clean energy.

The reports also states that the pipeline passes through Belgaum, Dharwad, Gadag, Bellary, Devanagere, Chitradurga, Tumkur, Ramanagaram, Bangalore Rural and Bangalore Urban districts.

The pipeline navigate through 18 National Highways, 382 other road crossings, 20 railway crossings, 83 cased crossings, 11 major river crossings and 276 water body crossings.

The project that was completed in 19 months also passes through the Asia’s largest river crossing in rocky terrain at Ghatprabha, according to a statement released by the oil ministry here.