The Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply today that GAIL is pursuing a project on conversion of waste plastic to petrol, diesel/LPG for which lab-scale studies and bench-scale studies have been carried out. The Basic Design and Engineering Package was prepared in 2013-14 for setting up of pilot plant. However, options for setting up of the pilot plant are presently being explored.