At the behest of Adityapur municipal corporation (AMC), Gail India held a session on gas pipeline project at a meeting of the civic body at Auto Cluster auditorium in Adityapur on Friday. This is a process of putting the township into the map of the piped cooking gas supply system to the households.

Revealing about the step, AMC's mayor Vinod Srivastava said they are bringing the facility of cooking gas to the households in Adityapur and the presentation made by Gail India about the proposed project was a part of its preparations.

“The management from Gail India made a presentation of the cooking gas pipeline-laying system among the authorities of AMC and its corporator on Friday. They also made all those who attended the meeting talk about the benefit of piped gas in place of the conventional supply of the LPG cylinders during the presentation,” said Srivastava while talking to The Telegraph Online.

He said that the facility of piped gas supply will be provided to all the households in Adityapur and parts of the adjoining Gamharia, which also comes under the AMC.

“As per 2011 census the population of the Adityapur and parts of Gamharia was 1.73 lakh. In 10 years, the population must have doubled that figure, making over 40,000 households. We will provide piped gas to all the households," he pointed out.

The mayor said that they had submitted an application for launching the gas pipeline project in Adityapur to the AMC commissioner, Girija Nandan Prasad in October and the Friday's meeting with Gail India management was in the sequel to getting a nod to the application.

“On Friday, the meeting was held between all the 33 corporators and representatives of Gail India. Within the next few weeks, a board meeting of the AMC will be held over the gas pipeline project. Subsequently, we will hold a meeting of all the stakeholders, including the Adityapur Housing Board, Jharkhand Industrial Area Development Authority regional office - Adityapur and Adityapur Small Industries Association. Then only we will give a final shape to the gas pipeline project here,” Srivastava stated.

AMC has already put two major projects concerning drinking water supply and upgrading the sewage system in Adityapur and parts of Gamharia, work of which is in progress at a snail's pace.

Significantly, Om Prakash, president of a local NGO, Jan Kalyan Morcha (JKM) said that it is a pleasant thing to know that the residents of Adityapur will be able to use the piped gas at their homes, but they will have to bear a lot in the event of the third project involving digging work.

“The roads and lanes have been dug extensively as water and sewage pipeline works are being carried out by government agencies. If the gas pipeline laying work begins, then the residents are bound to face greater problems while coming out of their homes, though the project of the gas pipeline is a pleasant thing to happen in Adityapur,” said Om Prakash while talking to this website.