Natural Gas & Pipelines

India's gas grid was once patchy and concentrated in the west. A national push to make natural gas 15% of the energy mix by 2030 — up from about 6% — expanded the operational pipeline network from 15,340 km in 2014 to 27,905 km by March 2026, an 82% rise, with 34,803 km authorised in all.

Big trunk lines like the Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga (Jagdishpur-Haldia-Bokaro-Dhamra) are connecting eastern India to the gas grid. A unified pipeline tariff under One Nation, One Grid, One Tariff has applied since 1 April 2023, and City Gas Distribution has been authorised across 307 geographical areas with potential coverage of almost the entire population — delivering piped gas to homes and CNG to vehicles.

Natural gas moves through a growing national pipeline grid that connects import terminals and gas fields to power plants, factories, homes and vehicles. India is stitching these regional networks into 'one nation, one gas grid' with a unified tariff — one levelised charge across the connected grid, set in three distance zones — to narrow regional differences in the cost of moving gas. City Gas Distribution then delivers it as piped cooking gas (PNG) and vehicle fuel (CNG).

The goal is to raise gas from about 6% to 15% of India's energy mix by 2030 as a cleaner bridge between coal and renewables. The next step is lifting domestic gas output, completing the 8,551 km of pipeline under construction, adding LNG import terminals, and extending piped-gas and CNG connections across the 307 authorised city-gas areas — so cleaner cooking and transport fuel reach far more homes and vehicles.

Operational pipelines 15,340 km (2014) → 27,905 km (March 2026, +82%); 34,803 km authorised, 8,551 km under construction; 307 City Gas Distribution areas; unified tariff from 1 April 2023; gas target 15% of the energy mix by 2030. Source: PNGRB; MoPNG via PIB.