India, Nepal Hold Second Joint Working Group Meeting
The assembly of India-Nepal Joint Running Crew was once held by the use of video conferencing. (Document)
Kathmandu:
India and Nepal had a Joint Running Crew assembly final week, all over which the 2 aspects mentioned long term spaces of cooperation within the petroleum power sector, together with chances of new pipelines for provide of petroleum merchandise to the Himalayan country, stated the Indian embassy on Saturday.
The second one assembly of India-Nepal Joint Running Crew (JWG) on oil and gasoline cooperation was once held via video conferencing on August 13, the embassy stated in a commentary.
The assembly was once co-chaired through BN Reddy, Joint Secretary in Ministry of Petroleum and Herbal Fuel and Prem Kumar Shrestha, Joint Secretary within the Ministry of Trade, Business and Provides, Executive of Nepal, the commentary said.
Representatives from the Embassy of India in Kathmandu, Indian Public Sector Oil and Fuel corporations comparable to IOCL, GAIL and HPCL, Ministries of Finance and Overseas Affairs of Nepal and Nepal Oil Company (NOC) participated within the JWG assembly.
“The assembly expressed pride on functioning of the Motihari-Amlekhgunj Petroleum Merchandise Pipeline, which was once collectively inaugurated and operationalised through Top Ministers of each nations in September 2019,” the discharge said.
The pipeline, first of its type in South Asian area, has been supplying nearly all of the gasoline requirement of Nepal to Amlekhgunj Depot of NOC.
“Either side additionally mentioned long term spaces of cooperation within the petroleum power sector, together with chances of new pipelines for provide of petroleum merchandise to Nepal,” the discharge said.
“Either side inspired their respective corporations to paintings intently for increasing engagement within the petroleum sector,” it added.
The JWG mechanism was once arrange in 2017 to additional support the long-standing cooperation between IOCL and NOC and diversify spaces of cooperation between the 2 nations within the oil and gasoline sectors. The primary assembly of the JWG was once held in January this yr in New Delhi.
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