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Describe the role of energy pipelines in the industrial development and in reducing the regional imbalances in India.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Transport, Communication and Trade

An energy pipeline is less a transport line than a development axis — an indivisible corridor whose benefits appear at points along it, not across the ground between.

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  • The Mechanism — Pipeline as Growth Axis
  • Industrial Development
  • Reducing Regional Imbalance — the Eastern Evidence
  • Where the Axis Widens the Gap
  • Verdict

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