Which Among the Following Statements Are True About ‘Urja Ganga’ Project? a) It is a Gas Pipe Line Project. b) It Was Launched in October 2016 c) It Runs from Iran to India. Choose the Correct Answer from The Code Given Below

The correct answer is B, because statements a and b are true and statement c is false.

• Statement a (true): Urja Ganga is a natural gas pipeline, a domestic trunk line of roughly 2,050 km planned under the Jagdishpur-Haldia-Bokaro-Dhamra network and run by GAIL. It is meant to take gas to eastern India and link into the national gas grid.
• Statement b (true): The first stretch was dedicated in October 2016, so the launch date is right. Parts of the network have been extended since, so do not treat the current scope as the 2016 scope.
• Statement c (false): Urja Ganga does not run from Iran. It is entirely within India, from Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh eastward. The Iran link is the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline, which was never completed.

The core concept is the gas grid and energy security. Mains often asks about the government's push to raise natural gas's share of the energy mix and the 'One Nation, One Grid' logic behind pipeline networks, so know which pipelines are domestic and which are cross-border.

Trap: Aspirants see 'pipeline' and 'gas' and assume an Iran or Central Asia connection. Keep domestic grid projects and cross-border proposals separate.