{"id":7990,"date":"2017-08-17T18:54:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=7990"},"modified":"2017-08-17T18:54:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:24:13","slug":"current-affairs-india-to-host-steering-committee-meeting-of-tapi-gas-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/current-affairs-india-to-host-steering-committee-meeting-of-tapi-gas-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Affairs: India to host steering committee meeting of TAPI gas pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">India will host the next steering committee meeting of the proposed 1,814 kilometre-long Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline. The meeting will be held in New Delhi. This decision was taken during the sixth joint Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) meeting on trade, economic, scientific and technological cooperation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 14pt;\">About Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Turkmenistan\u2013Afghanistan\u2013Pakistan\u2013India Pipeline (TAPI), also known as Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline, is an under construction natural gas pipeline that will transport Caspian Sea natural gas from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then to India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It was initially proposed in the year 1995.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The pipeline is being developed by Asian Development Bank.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Construction of the pipeline started in Turkmenistan in December 2015 and is expected to be operational by 2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From an Indian perspective, the pipeline is an effort to tap Turkmenistan\u2019s Galkynysh gas fields, which are the fourth largest in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 14pt;\">Recent Developments:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The last steering committee meeting, scheduled to be held annually took place in April 2016.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made the proposal to hold the TAPI steering committee meet in Delhi when he met the Turkmenistan President in Ashgabat last year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The move to hold TAPI\u2019s steering committee meeting in India is an effort by the Indian government to stave off any Chinese interest in the project, given that Turkmenistan is a close partner of China in its Belt and Road initiative across Central Asia, and China is the largest buyer of its gas.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During the recent meeting between Turkmenistan\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov and Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, Mr. Meredov said that his government strongly believes in this project and considers it as a good foundation for providing peace and security in the region.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India will host the next steering committee meeting of the proposed 1,814 kilometre-long Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline. The meeting will be held in New Delhi. This decision was taken during the sixth joint Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) meeting on trade, economic, scientific and technological cooperation. About Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline: Turkmenistan\u2013Afghanistan\u2013Pakistan\u2013India Pipeline (TAPI), also known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7991,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions\/7991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}