Turkmenistan has offered India a lead role in the international consortia that will build a7.6 billion US dollar pipeline to transport natural gas from the former Soviet republic to its South Asian neighbours. The offer was made by Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov when Indian Oil Minister Murli Deora called on him on the sidelines of a summit meeting on Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline in Ashgabat on December 11. An official said this in New Delhi on Tuesday.The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is the Lead Development Partner of the project which envisages supply of gas from Turkmenistan's South Yoloten-Osman field.The official said Turkmenistan will give delivery of gas at Afghanistan border and thereafter a consortium of companies which would be formed to execute the project, will take over from there to deliver gas to the host country through which gas pipeline will pass.The total length of the pipeline passing through Afghanistan and Pakistan is 1,650 kilometres before entering India at Fazilka, Punjab.