PM dedicates IOC's Jasidih terminal to nation at Jharkhand.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today dedicated to the nation a newly built oil storage depot of state-owned Indian Oil Corp at Jasidih in Deoghar district of Jharkhand.

Spread on 26 acres, the Jasidih terminal, which was built at a cost of Rs. 109 crore, is the first pipeline fed terminal of Jharkhand, IOC said in a press statement.

The state-of-the-art terminal would handle petrol, diesel and kerosene supplies to the markets of Bokaro, Shanbad, Giridih, Deoghar, Jamtara, Godda, Dumka, Pakur and Sahibganj.

The supplies to these areas are currently being met from Dhanbad and Ranchi depots.

The Jasidih terminal has been equipped with product storage facilities aggregating to 31,600 kilolitres (kl). Of this, petrol would be 10694 kl, diesel 15814 kl, kerosene 4882 kl and ethanol 210 kl.

'Since the products would be loaded into tank-trucks for onward movement and distribution in the neighbouring markets, the terminal has been provided with a 12-bay tank lorry filling shed with state-of-the-art bottom loading facilities and the latest environment-friendly technology of vapour recovery system,' IOC said.

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