Birgunj, March 10
The installation of petroleum pipeline from Motihari, India to Amalekhgunj, Bara has begun. It is one of the priority projects in Nepal.
Indian Company, Likhiya Infrastructures, contracted to lay the pipeline in 36.206 km began the task. It would take 15 months to lay the pipeline. A huge machine for the digging has been brought from India for this purpose, project chief Sharad Kumar Poudel, told the National News Agency (RSS).
All pipes have been brought and they were being fit together currently. The project is being constructed at the cost of some Rs 3.50 billion.
The pipes were gathered at the two bighas of land owned by Birgunj Sugar Mill.
It is expected that with the operation of the pipeline, some 200,000 litres of petroleum products would be emptied every hour in the depot at Amlekhgunj.
