Agartala, Sept. 5 -- Oval Projects Engineering Limited (OPEL) has become the first company from the northeastern state to be listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), over five decades after Tripura joined the Indian Union.

Founded in 2013, the Agartala-based company operates across seven Indian states in the oil and gas sector and other infrastructure projects.

OPEL, with a capital of Rs 177 crore, has delivered significant projects, including a gas gathering station for ONGC in 2016, which supplied gas to a 106 MW power project by NEEPCo.

Celebrating the listing, OPEL chairman Gautam Debnath called it a "historic milestone" and highlighted that the company is also the first in the northeast to attract foreign direct investment (FDI)...