About Gas Authority of India Limited:
GAIL (India) Ltd was incorporated in August 1984 as a Central Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoP and NG).The company was initially given the responsibility of construction, operation and maintenance of the Hazira - Vijaypur -Jagdishpur (HVJ) pipeline Project.It was one of the largest cross-country natural gas pipeline projects in the world.Originally this 1800 Km long pipeline was built at a cost of Rs 1700 Crores and it laid the foundation for development of market for natural Gas in India. GAIL, after having started as a natural gas transmission company during the late eighties, has grown organically by building large network of Natural Gas Pipelines covering over 9500 Km with a capacity of around 172 MMSCMD; two LPG Pipelines covering 2040 Km with a capacity of 3.3 MMTPA of LPG.