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TAPI Project - A Natural Gas Pipeline Project.

Leaders-Afganistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and India inaugurated the project TAPI. 
- Expected year of its completion is 2019.
TAPI Project
- Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Natural Gas Pipeline Project.
- It aims to export up to 33 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas per year through a proposed approximately 1,800-kilometer (km) pipeline from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
- Project Rationale and Linkage to Country
1
. TAPI presents an opportunity for regional cooperation at an unprecedented scale linking the economies of the 4 countries together.
2. The Central Asia Regional Cooperation's (CAREC) Strategy for Regional Cooperation in the Energy Sector identifies TAPI as one of the links in the inter-energy relationship among CAREC countries. 
- Aim:
1. Energy security through balanced development of regional infrastructure and institutions, 
2. Stronger integration of markets, and 
3. Economic growth through enhanced energy trading.
- Impact
Enhanced energy trading between Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.
- Executing Body: Asian Development Bank(ADB).

Other Important Indian projects approved by ADB.
1
. Green Energy Corridor and Grid Strengthening Project
The project will fund electric transmission system investments in India, including, a portion of the Government of India's "Green Energy Corridor" initiative to facilitate the transfer of power from the renewable energy (RE) rich areas to other parts of the country, consisting of 765 kilovolt.
2. Supporting Rajasthan's Productive Clusters in Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor
3. North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program.

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