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State-owned gas utility GAIL India Ltd today said the first phase of the 2,655-km gas pipeline from Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh to West Bengal and Odisha will be completed before the scheduled target of December 2018. The company said it has placed pipe-laying order for 530 km between Bokaro in Jharkhand and Angul in Odisha, worth Rs 780 crore. "With these awards, major contracts of the project, i.e. pipe supply and laying contract orders for 2,200 kms have been finalised," it said in a press statement. The prestigious 2,655 km long Jagdishpur-Haldia & Bokaro-Dhamra Natural Gas Pipeline (JHBDPL) project, also known as the 'Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga' project, was inaugurated by Prime Mi......