New Delhi, Sep 10 (TIWN) To stengthen bilateral relations between India and Nepal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepal's Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli on Tuesday inaugurated South Asia's first cross-border petroleum products pipeline which will provide cleaner petroleum products at affordable cost to the people of Nepal.

The over 60 km-long pipeline is the first-ever cross-border petroleum product pipeline in the South Asia region, according to a video presentation made before the inauguration.  As of now, tankers carry petroleum products from India to Nepal as part of an arrangement which is in place since 1973.