Doubts over Assam Rifles role - Force fails to stop arms smuggling across Myanmar border
Document Actions
Indian parliament briefed on India-Burma gas pipeline
India's minister of state for petroleum and natural gas, Dinsha Patel, told parliament today no progress had been made in negotiations with Bangladesh over the route of a proposed gas pipeline from Burma to India.
Mizzima News: 17 May, 2006
India's minister of state for petroleum and natural gas, Dinsha Patel, told parliament today no progress had been made in negotiations with Bangladesh over the route of a proposed gas pipeline from Burma to India.
"No progress has been achieved as Bangladesh wants the inclusion of certain bilateral issues in the trilateral MoU, which is not acceptable to India," Patel said.
"In view of the above, India is pursuing the option of a gas pipeline from [Burma] through the North-Eastern States of India bypassing Bangladesh," the minister said in a written statement.
Patel also said the Gas Authority of India had completed a feasibility report on a pipeline route linking the Kaladan River in Burma to India's Mizoram State and that negotiations with Burma were ongoing.