BC Tripathi, Chairman of GAIL (India) said the firm would wait one month for the Tamil Nadu government to take a decision on the company’s natural gas pipeline project which passes through the state.
GAIL is implementing an ambitous Kochi-Koottanad-Bangalore-Mangalore natural gas pipeline project and it passes through seven districts in Tamil Nadu — Coimbatore, Tirupur, Erode, Namakkal, Salem, Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri — over 310 km.
The state-run gas firm faced resistance from locals while laying the gas pipeline in Tamil Nadu as farmers fear that the pipeline would result in a loss of agricultural production in future.
This prompted the Tamil Nadu government to prevent the firm from laying the pipeline across farmersÂ’ fields and instead align it with highways.
The board of GAIL discussed the matter and it decided to wait for one more month and take a call on abandoning the project.
GAIL fears that even if it wins the case (the matter is in the Madras High Court), ultimately it is the support of the state government that is needed to implement the project.
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