Lok Sabha Question No. 1722 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-06
Subject: Closed Fertilizer Plants
Ministry: CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS
Asked by: T.G. VENKATESH BABU

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS & FERTILIZERS DEPARTMENT OF FERTILIZERS

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1722 TO BE ANSWERED ON: 06.03.2018

## Closed Fertilizer Plants

## 1722. SHRI VENKATESH BABU T.G.

Will the Minister of CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS be pleased to state

- (a) the details of fertilizer plants closed in the recent years, year-wise;
- (b) whether  the  Government  has  any  proposal  to  reopen  the  closed fertilizer plants;
- (c) if so, the details thereof, unit-wise; and
- (d) the  time  by  which  the  closed  fertilizer  units  are  likely  to  be  opened along with their   targeted production capacity thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  FOR  THE  MINISTRY  OF PLANING  AND  MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  CHEMICALS  & FERILIZERS

## (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

- (a): No Fertilizer plants have been closed in the recent years. However, in 2002, five units  of  Fertilizer  Corporation  of  India  Limited  (FCIL)    located  at Sindri (Jharkhand), Talchar (Odisha), Ramagundam (Telangana), Gorakhpur (Uttar  Pradesh)  &  Korba  (Chhattisgarh)  and  3  Units  of  Hindustan  Fertilizer Corporation  Limited  (HFCL)  located  at  Barauni  (Bihar),  Durgapur  &  Haldia (West Bengal) were closed.
- (b): As these units have large infrastructure facilities like sizable land bank, residential and office buildings, railway siding, tied up sources of electricity and  water,  GoI  has  decided  to  revive  all  closed  units  of  FCIL  and  HFCL. However,  at  present  Government  is  reviving  five  closed  units  namely Gorakhpur, Sindri, Talcher and Ramagundam units of FCIL and Barauni unit of HFCL by setting up of 12.7 Lakhs Metric Tones Per Annum urea plant at each of these units.
- (c) & (d):  The present status of these units is as under:

## Ramagundam Unit :

Ramagundam  unit  of  FCIL  is  being  revived  on  nomination  basis  by consortium  of  PSUs  namely  Engineers  India  Limited  (EIL),  National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) and Fertilizer Corporation of India Ltd (FCIL) by setting  up  a  gas  based  fertilizer  plant  of  1.27  MMTPA  capacity.    The Joint  Venture  agreement  signed  on  14.1.  2015.  JV  Company  named Ramagundam Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited has been formed. Project construction  activities  are  under  progress.  The  project  likely  to  be commissioned by 31.12.2018.

## Gorakhpur & Sindri units of FCIL and Barauni Unit of HFCL:

Gorakhpur, Sindri and Barauni units are being revived by means of  a Special Purpose Vehicle of Public Sector Undertakings namely, National  Thermal  Power  Corporation,  Coal  India  Limited,  Indian  Oil Corporation  Limited  and  Fertilizer  Corporation  India  Limited/Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Limited by setting up gas based fertilizer plants of 1.27  MMTPA  capacity  each.  A  Joint  Venture  company  by  name Hindustan  Urvarak  &  Rasayan  Limited  (HURL)  has  been  formed.  Pre project activities are under progress. The above three projects likely to start production by 2020.

## Talcher Unit:

Talcher  Unit  of  FCIL  is  being  revived  on  'Nomination  basis'  by  a Consortium  of  PSUs  namely  Rashtriya  Chemicals  &  Fertilizers  Ltd (RCF),  Gas  Authority  of  India  Ltd  (GAIL),  Coal  India  Ltd  (CIL)  and Fertilizer  Corporation  of  India  Ltd  (FCIL)  by  setting  up  a  coal  based fertilizer  plant  of  1.27  MMTPA  capacity.    A  JV  Company  Talcher Fertilizers Limited (TFL) has been formed.  The Talcher project likely to start production by 2021.

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