Major beneficiaries will be IOCL, Barauni, HFCL, Barauni, Major beneficiaries will be IOCL, Barauni, HFCL, Barauni,City Gas Distribution in Patna, Gaya and Barauni. The pipelineis passing through nine districts of Bihar namely Kaimur,Rohtas, Aurangabad, Gaya, Nalanda, Patna, Shiekhpura,Lakhisarai and Begusarai. GAIL has already placed orders for purchase of 315 km ofLine Pipes for Auraiya – Phulpur Pipeline. It had also placedorders earlier for Line Pipes of Phulpur – Dobhi (Gaya)Section of the Project and awarded Laying Work Contracts forthe Dobhi – Patna-Barauni sections, the statement said. Laying Works in Dobhi – Patna-Barauni section have alreadycommenced in September 2015. The 341 km Phulpur-Dobhi section is expected to start fromOctober 2016 and the project upto Patna is targeted to becompleted by December 2018. PTI SNS SUSMRJ