JULY 20249URJA GANGA GAS PIPELINE COMPLETION DELAYED TO MARCH 2025: SAYS GAILTAFE MOTORS, DEUTZ AG INK PACT TO EXPAND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE BUSINESSThe completion of the 'Urja Ganga' gas pipeline, an extensive project valued at 12,940 crore, has been postponed by nine months and is now expected to be finished by March 2025, as announced by GAIL (India) . This pipeline is considered to be India's most significant venture in delivering eco-friendly fuel to the country's eastern regions.Originally, the 3,306-kilometre Jagdish-pur-Haldia-Bokaro-Dhamra pipeline was scheduled to be operational by June 2024. However, due to a delay in securing the right of use (RoU), the timeline has been ad-justed, with completion now projected for March 2025, according to a disclosure made by GAIL in a stock ex-change filing.Construction of the bulk of the pipeline has already been done, and gas has started to flow in most cities along the route. Traditionally, natural gas was available for use as fuel to generate electricity, make fertilizer or turn into CNG and cooking gas only in the western and northern parts of the country, as pipelines taking the fuel from source to users were limited to these parts.In October 2016, work on laying a pipeline from Jag-dishpur in Uttar Pradesh to Haldia in West Bengal, Boka-ro in Jharkhand and Dhamra in Odisha began.The line was extended to Guwahati in Assam from Barauni in Bihar, a length of 726 km, to take the fuel to hereto-unconnected states in the eastern region. TAFE Motors and Tractors a subsidiary of TAFE a leading manufacturer of tractors, has partnered with DEUTZ AG, a German manufacturer of inter-nal combustion engines, to jointly produce the DEUTZ en-gine line in the country. TAFE (Tractors and Farm Equip-ment) Motors and Tractors is a subsidiary of world's third biggest tractor manufacturer and city based TAFE."DEUTZ inks cooperation with TAFE, allowing DEUTZ to expand its business in India. As the beginning of a long-term cooperation, TAFE Motors would manufacture up to 30,000 DEUTZ engines in 50-75 hp and 75-100 hp under license to augment and complement the wide range of en-gines made by the group across emission standards," a company statement here said on Tuesday.In addition to meeting DEUTZ's needs, TAFE Motors and Tractors would produce engines for newer Indi-an applications. The motors would be delivered at the manufacturing facility of TAFE Motors at Alwar, Rajas-than. The manufacturing plant presently creates diesel engines and gensets in the 5 to 125 kVA range that are showcased as Eicher Motors and TMTL Motors. DEUTZ would use the manufacturing base for abroad business sectors including Asia Pacific and neighbouring nations."The strategic cooperation with TAFE Motors se-cures DEUTZ access to growing markets with strong po-tential and long-term prospects," DEUTZ CEO Sebastian C Shulte said. TOPSTORIESJULY 20249
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