Narinjara News
Story forwarded from Xinhua,
The
Financial Express Sunday quoted Mahmudur Rahman, adviser tothe Ministry of
Energy and Mineral Resources as saying that
A Gas Authority of India (GAIL) official disclosed last
Thursday that India is seriously considering a proposal to redesign the gas
pipeline so that it runs entirely through Indian territory skipping Bangladesh
altogether.
According to the new scheme, the pipeline will enter
In January this year, it was announced that the pipeline
would run through Arakan state in
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Experts here, however, expressed their strong reservations
about the new Indian plan, if there is any. They said it would be an almost
impossible task to build a gas pipeline through the difficult terrain of the
northeastern region of
They maintained that the so-called new plan was a
"ploy" to create pressure on
The tri-nation pipeline project was initiated by the
country's private Mohona Holdings Limited in 1997.
The governments of
Such demands, according to the Indian officials, are reasons
for the proposed realignment of the tri-nation pipeline.
The length of the pipeline as per original plan will be 900
kilometers long. But if
The proposed pipeline was one of several options India has beenconsidering to bring gas reserves from the Shwe Field's
Bloc A-1 site in Myanmar.
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2005-07-03