{"id":4334,"date":"2019-09-11T22:33:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T17:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2019-09-11T22:33:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T17:03:11","slug":"india-nepal-inaugurate-motihari-amlekhganj-oil-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/india-nepal-inaugurate-motihari-amlekhganj-oil-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Nepal inaugurate Motihari-Amlekhganj oil pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: India and Its Neighborhood \u2013 Relations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepalese counterpart K P Sharma Oli will inaugurate the Motihari-Amalekhgunj petroleum pipeline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location of the pipeline<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pipeline will transport fuel from Barauni refinery in Bihar\u2019s Begusarai district to Amalekhgunj in South-eastern Nepal, situated across the border from Raxaul in East Champaran district.<\/li>\n<li>According to the spokesperson of Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC), the 69-km pipeline will drastically reduce the cost of transporting fuel to landlocked Nepal from India.<\/li>\n<li>The Amalekhgunj fuel depot will have the capacity to store up to 16,000 kilolitres of petroleum products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Motihari-Amalekhgunj pipeline project was first proposed in 1996, but progress was slow.<\/li>\n<li>Things began to move after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Kathmandu in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>The following year, the two governments signed an agreement to execute the project.<\/li>\n<li>However, political tensions, including India\u2019s alleged economic blockade of Nepal, acted as roadblocks in the implementation.<\/li>\n<li>In 2017, state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) signed a petroleum trade agreement to supply about 1.3 million tonnes of fuel annually to Nepal with a promise to double the volume by 2020.<\/li>\n<li>In July 2019, the two countries successfully concluded a testing transfer through the oil pipeline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About the project and benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The project was initially estimated to cost Rs 275 crore, of which India was to bear Rs 200 crore.<\/li>\n<li>Subsequently, the NOC said the total project cost had escalated to almost Rs 325 crore.<\/li>\n<li>Commercial operation of the cross-border fuel project will bring down fuel price by at least one rupee per litre said the NOC Deputy Executive Director.<\/li>\n<li>The pipeline will help in tackling the oil storage problem in Nepal and doing away with transportation of petroleum products through tankers.<\/li>\n<li>It will ensure smooth, cost-effective and environment-friendly supply of petroleum products to Nepal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: India and Its Neighborhood \u2013 Relations Why in news? Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,18],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-ii","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4335,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}