SC allows GAIL to lay RLNG pipeline

The Supreme Court has allowed public sector GAIL (India) Ltd to lay a pipeline for transportation of natural gas to a power project that will supply electricity for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi next year. The pipeline, which will transport regasified liquefied natural gas from Vijaipur to Dadri, will also supply gas to Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. 
A special forest bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan allowed the public sector to go ahead with its Rs 3,306-crore project, which required laying of the pipeline through wildlife sanctuary areas in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, on certain conditions imposed by the Central Empowered Committee (CEC).  It is a 505-km pipeline, with a maximum diameter of 48 inches.