Lok Sabha Question No. 1 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-14
Subject: Gas Pipelines
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: Gopal Jee Thakur, Dharambir Singh

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 1 TO BE ANSWERED ON 14.09.2020 Gas Pipelines

## 1. SHRI GOPAL JEE THAKUR:

## पेोलयम और ाक ृतक गैस मंी

- Will the Minister of PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS be pleased to state: (a) whether the Government is supplying or proposes to supply Natural Gas through pipe lines in all the cities across the country; (b) if so, the State-wise details thereof including Bihar; and (c)  whether  there  is  any  ongoing  project  for  Darbhanga  district  of  Bihar  and  if  so,  the  details
- thereof and if not, the details of future plans for Darbhanga including any prospective project to be implemented in Darbhanga?

## ANSWER पेोलयम और ाक ृतक गैस मंी ( ी धम धान ) MINISTER OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS

## (SHRI DHARMENDRA PRADHAN)

- (a)  Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) is the authority to grant authorization to  the  entities  for  the  development  of  City  Gas  Distribution  (CGD)  network  in  Geographical Areas (GAs) as per PNGRB Act, 2006.  PNGRB identifies GAs for authorizing the development of CGD network in synchronization with the development of natural gas pipeline connectivity and natural gas availability. Providing PNG (domestic) connections is a part of development of City Gas Distribution (CGD) Network by an authorized entity.So far PNGRB has authorized 232 GAs for development of CGD network across country covering more than 400 districts in the country in 27 States/UTs which covers around 71% of India's population and 53 % of area.
- (b) State wise details along with details of GAs authorized for development of CGD network in the country including Bihar is at Annexure.
- (c)  Darbhanga  district  in  the  state  of  Bihar  is  to  be  covered  in  synchronization  with  the development of natural  gas  pipeline  connectivity,  techno-commercial  viability  and  natural  gas availability.

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## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  to  (c)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  1  TO  BE  ANSWERED  ON  14.09.2020  REGARDING GAS PIPELINE

List of Geographical Areas covered for development of CGD network in the country

|   Sl No. | State/UT                              | Geographical Areas                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
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|        1 | Andhra Pradesh                        | Kakinada, East Godavari District (excluding areas already authorized), West Godavari district, Krishna district (excluding areas already authorized), Vijaiwada, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam &Vizianagaram Districts; Anantapur and YSR (Kadapa) Districts; Sri PottiSriramulu Nellore District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka &Tamil Nadu | Chittoor, Kolar and Vellore Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
|        3 | Assam                                 | Upper Assam, Cachar, Hailakandi&Karimganj Districts; Kamrup&Kamrup Metropolitan Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|        4 | Bihar                                 | Patna District; Aurangabad, Kaimur&Rohtas Districts; Begusarai District; Gaya &Nalanda Districts; Araria, Purnia, Katihar and Kishanganj Districts; Arwal, Jehanabad, Bhojpur and Buxar Districts; Khagaria, Saharsa and Madhepura Districts; Lakhisarai, Munger and Bhagalpur Districts; Muzaffarpur, Vaishali, Saran and Samastipur Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
|        5 | Bihar &Jharkhand                      | Nawada and Koderma Districts; Sheikhpura, Jamui and Deoghar Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
|        6 | Daman &Diu and Gujarat                | UT of Daman, Diu &GirSomnath Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
|        7 | Gujarat                               | Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Kutch (West), Kutch (East), Amreli district, Patan district, Dahej, VagraTaluka, Dahod district, Banaskantha district, Anand district (excluding areas already authorized), Panchmahal district, Gandhinagar, Mehsana, Sabarkantha, Vadodara, Surat, Bharuch, Ankleshwar, Nadiad, Navsari (part) district, Rajkot, Surrendernagar (part) district, Ahmedabad City and Daskroi area, Hazira, Valsad (part) district, Anand area including Kanjari and Badtal villages (in Kheda district), Surendranagar District (Except areas already authorized); Barwala&RanpurTalukas; Navsari District (Except areas already authorized), Surat District (Except areas already authorized); Tapi District (Except areas already authorized) & the Dangs District; Junagadh District, Kheda District (Except areas already authorized), Morbi District (Except areas already authorized) &Mahisagar District; Narmada (Rajpipla) District, Porbandar District |

|   8 | Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab &Himachal Pradesh   | Chandigarh(UT) and Panchkula (Part), SAS Nagar(Part) &Solan (Part) districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
|-----|-------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   9 | Haryana &Himachal Pradesh                       | Panchkula District (Except areas already authorized), Sirmaur, Shimla &Solan (Except areas already authorized) Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
|  10 | Haryana &Punjab                                 | Sirsa, Fatehabad and Mansa (Punjab) Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
|  11 | Haryana                                         | Sonipat (part) district, Panipat district, Yamuna Nagar district, Rewari district, Rohtak district, Karnal district, Ambala&Kurukshetra district, Bhiwani, CharkhiDadri&Mahendragarh Districts; Hisar District; Jhajjar District; Sonipat District (Except areas already authorized) &Jind District; Nuh&Palwal Districts; Kaithal District, Gurugram, Faridabad.                                                                                                                                                                                      |
|  12 | Himachal Pradesh                                | Bilaspur, Hamirpur&Una Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
|  13 | Jharkhand                                       | East Singhbhum district, Ranchi district, Bokaro, Hazaribagh&Ramgarh Districts; Giridih&Dhanbad Districts; Chatra and Palamu Districts; Seraikela-Kharsawan District; West Singhbhum District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
|  14 | Karnataka                                       | Bengaluru (Rural and Urban) districts, Tumkur district, Dharwad district, Belgaum district, Chitradurga&Davanagere Districts; Udupi District; Ballari&Gadag Districts; Bidar District; Dakshina Kannada District; Ramanagara District; Bagalkot, Koppal and Raichur Districts; Chikkamagaluru, Hassan and Kodagu Districts; Kalaburagi and Vijayapura Districts; Mysuru, Mandya and Chamarajanagar Districts; Uttara Kannada, Haveri and Shivamogga Districts                                                                                          |
|  15 | Kerala                                          | Ernakulam district, Kozhikode &Wayanad Districts; Malappuram District; Palakkad &Thrissur Districts; Alapuzzha, Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
|  16 | Kerala &Puducherry                              | Kannur, Kasaragod&Mahe Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
|  17 | Madhya Pradesh                                  | Dewas (part) district, Dhar district, Indore including Ujjain city (Part) district, Gwalior (part) district, Bhopal &Rajgarh Districts; Guna District; Rewa District; Satna&Shadol Districts; Ashoknagar District; Gwalior (Except already authorized) District and Sheopur District; Morena District; Raisen, Shajapur and Sehore Districts; Shivpuri District; Sidhi and Singrauli Districts; Ujjain (Except area already authorized) District, Dewas (Except area already authorized) District and Indore (Except area already authorized) District |
|  18 | Madhya Pradesh & Chattisgargh                   | Anuppur, Bilaspur and Korba Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
|  19 | Madhya Pradesh & Rajasthan                      | Jhabua, Banswara, Ratlam and Dungarpur Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
|  20 | Madhya Pradesh & Uttar Pradesh                  | Jhansi (Except area already authorized) District, Bhind, Jalaun, Lalitpur and Datia Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |

|   21 | Maharashtra          | Palgarh district & Thane Rural, Raigarh district (excluding area already authorized), Pune district (areas already authorized), Ratnagiri district, Solapur district, Kolhapur district, Mumbai and Greater Mumbai, Pune city including Pimpri-Chinchwad and adjoining contiguous areas Hinjewadi, Chakan, Talegaon, Thane (Urban and adjoining Municipalities), Ahmednagar& Aurangabad Districts; Latur&Osmanabad Districts; Sangli&Satara Districts; SindhudurgDistrict    |
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|   22 | Maharashtra &Gujarat | Valsad (Except areas already authorized), Dhule&Nashik Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
|   23 | Odisha               | Khordha district, Kuttack district, Angul&Dhekanal Districts; Sundargarh&Jharsuguda Districts; Balasore, Bhadrak&Mayurbhanj Districts; Bargarh, Debagarh&Sambalpur Districts; Ganjam, Nayagarh&Puri Districts; Jagatsinghpur&Kendrapara Districts; Jajpur&Kendujhar Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                |
|   24 | Punjab               | Jalandhar (part) district, Ludhiana (part) district, Amritsar, Bhatinda district, Roopnagar district, Fatehgarh Sahib district, SAS Nagar District (Except areas already authorized), Patiala &Sangrur Districts; Ludhiana District (Except area already authorized), Barnala&Moga Districts; Jalandhar District (Except areas already authorized), Kapurthala& SBS Nagar Districts; Ferozepur, Faridkot and Sri Muktsar Sahib Districts; Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur Districts |
|   25 | Rajasthan            | Kota (part) district, Bhiwadi (in Alwar district), Barmer, Jaisalmer& Jodhpur Districts; Alwar (Other than Bhiwadi) & Jaipur Districts; Kota District (Except area already authorized), Baran&Chittorgarh (Only RawatbhataTaluka) Districts; Bhilwara&Bundi Districts; Chittorgarh (Other than RawatbhataTaluka) & Udaipur Districts; Dholpur District; Ajmer, Pali and Rajsamand Districts; Jalore and Sirohi Districts                                                     |
|   26 | Tamil Nadu           | Kanchipuram District; Chennai &Tiruvallur Districts; Coimbatore District; Cuddalore, Nagapattinam&Tiruvarur Districts; Ramanathapuram District; Salem District; Tiruppur District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
|   27 | Telangana            | BhadradriKothagudem&Khamman Districts; Jagtial, Peddapalli, Karimnagar&RajannaSircilla Districts; Jangaon, JayashankarBhupalpally, Mahabubabad, Warangal Urban & Warangal Rural Districts; Medak, Siddipet&Sangareddy Districts; Medchal-Malkajgiri, Ranga Reddy &Vikarabad Districts; NalgondaSuryapet&YadadriBhuvanagiri Districts                                                                                                                                         |
|   28 | Tripura              | Agartala, Gomati District; West Tripura (Except areas already authorized) District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |

|   29 | Uttar Pradesh              | Mathura (part) district, Meerut (part) district, Allahabad (part) district, Jhansi (part) district, Saharanpur district, Bulandshahr (part) district, Baghpat district, Bareilly (part) district, Kanpur (part) district, Agra, Firozabad TTZ, Lucknow, Khurja, Moradabad (Part) district, Varanasi district, Gautambudh Nagar, Ghaziabad &Hapur District, Bulandshahr District (Except areas already authorized), Aligarh &Hathras Districts; Allahabad District (Except areas already authorized), Bhadohi&Kaushambi Districts; Amethi, Pratapgarh&Raebareli Districts; Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat&Etawah Districts; Faizabad&Sultanpur Districts; Gorakhpur, SantKabir Nagar &Kushinagar Districts; Meerut District (Except areas already authorized), Muzaffarnagar&Shamli Districts; Moradabad (Except areas already authorized) District; Unnao (Except areas already authorized) District: Azamgarh, Mau and Ballia Districts; Bareilly (Except area already authorized) District, Pilibhit and Rampur Districts; Basti and Ambedkarnagar Districts; Farrukhabad, Etah and Hardoi Districts; Gonda and Barabanki Districts; Jaunpur and Ghazipur Districts ; Kanpur (Except area already authorized) District, Fatehpur and Hamirpur Districts; Mainpuri and Kannauj Districts, Mirzapur, Chandauli and Sonbhadra Districts; Shahjahanpur and Budaun Districts;   |
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|   30 | Uttar Pradesh &Uttarakhand | Bijnor and Nainital Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
|   31 | Uttarakhand                | Udhamsingh Nagar district, Haridwar, Dehradun District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|   32 | West Bengal                | Kolkata Municipal Corporation and parts of adjoining districts, Burdwan District; Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Uttar Dinajpur Districts; Howrah (Except Area already authorized) District and Hoogly (Except Area already authorized) District; Nadia (Except Area already authorized) District and North 24 Parganas (Except Area already authorized) District; South 24 Parganas (Except Area already authorized) District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
|   33 | Dadra &Nagar Haveli        | UT of Dadra &Nagar Haveli                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
|   34 | Goa                        | North Goa district, South Goa district                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|   35 | Delhi                      | NCT of Delhi                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |