Jagdishpur-Haldia and Bokaro-Dhamra Natural Gas Pipeline (JHBDPL) project

•The 2,655-km-long JHBDPL project is also known as the “Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga” project.
•It aims at covering five Eastern states — Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal — by 2020. It has been recently decided to extend the project to North East adding another 750-km up to Guwahati and later to all the state capitals of the north-east region.
•The project is being implemented by the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL).
•This pipeline project does not pass through Madhya Pradesh.