| GAIL (India) Limited (formerly known as Gas Authority of India Ltd.) is a central public sector undertaking under the ownership of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. It has the following business segments: natural gas, liquid hydrocarbon, liquefied petroleum gas transmission, petrochemical, city gas distribution, renewable Energy including Solar & Wind, exploration and production, Petrochemicals, GAILTEL and electricity generation. GAIL was given the MahaRatna status on 1 Feb 2013 by the Government of India. Only 11 other Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) enjoy this coveted status amongst all Central PSUs.GAIL owns and operates a network of around 13,722 km of natural gas pipeline and currently executing around 6,000 km of pipeline projects of its own and about 2,000 km through two JVs, as part of the National Gas Grid. PNGRB has authorized the PSU to create a 1,755 km long Mumbai-Nagpur-Jharsuguda Pipeline. |
