Patna: GAIL India Limited will start pipeline laying work for supplying piped natural gas to residents in Patna. The gas major intends to start this facility in the state capital by October this year.

GAIL has planned to lay a pipeline ring along the major routes of the Patna and the beginning would be made by laying a pipeline between Phulwarisharif and Jagdeo Path.

"The work has already been awarded and the pipeline laying work would start next week. We are starting from Phulwarisharif because there only our city gas station would be set up," a GAIL official said.

The city gas station (CGS) would be like the main facility from where gas supply would be made throughout the city. It would have metering and distribution facility to keep tabs on the gas supplied to the city and also about the functioning of the pipeline that would be laid across the city.

The CGS has to be set up on a 1.5 acre plot of government land and work on this facility would start as soon as the land is handed over to GAIL.