The union government has laid the foundation stone of Nagpur- Jharsuguda section spanning about 692 km under the Mumbai-Nagpur-Jharsuguda natural gas pipeline.
The project involves laying, building, operating or expanding a natural gas pipeline from Mumbai (Maharashtra) to Jharsuguda (Odisha) through Nagpur, Raipur, Bilaspur, Korba, Raigarh along with spurline to Nagpur- Chhindwara- Jabalpur spanning about 1,780 km with an initial system capacity of at least 10 million standard cubic meters a day (mmscmd). It entails an investment of Rs 78.44 billion.