Lok Sabha Question No. 4481 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-23
Subject: New Fertilizer plants
Ministry: CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS
Asked by: Upendra Singh Rawat

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4481 TO BE ANSWERED ON: 23.03.2021

## New Fertilizer plants

## 4481 . SHRI UPENDRA SINGH RAWAT:

Will the Minister of CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government proposes to establish new unitslplants for the production of chemical fertilizers in the country including Uttar Pradesh;
- (b) if the details thereof the last three years and the current year; during SO,
- (c) whether the Government also proposes to set up any plant with external assistance to meet the shortage of fertilizers in the country, specially in various districts in Uttar Pradesh;
- (d) if so, the details thereof;
- (e) the further steps proposed to promote indigenous production of fertilizers?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF CHEMICALS AND FERTILZERS.

## D.V. SADANANDA GOWDA)

(a) & (b): Sir, Government of India has decided to revive five closed  fertilizer plants Fertilizer   Corporation of India Ltd\_ (FCIL) and Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Ltd. (HFCL) namely Talcher; Ramagundam, Gorakhpur and Sindri units of FCIL and Barauniunit of HFCL by setting up new Ammonia Urea plants of 12.7 Lakh Metric Tonne per annum capacity each, in the following states:

| SI No:   | Name of Fertilizer plant                      | Name of location & State where plant is located   |
|----------|-----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|
|          | Ramagundam Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd (RFCL) | Ramagundam, Telangana                             |
| 2        | Hindustan Urvarak&Rasayan Ltd. (HURL)         | Gorakhpur; Uttar Pradesh                          |
| 3        | Hindustan                                     | Sindri, Jharkhand                                 |
| 4        | Hindustan Urvarak&Rasayan Ltd. (HURL)         | Barauni, Bihar                                    |
| 5        | Talcher Fertilizers Ltd. (TFL)                | Talcher , Odisha                                  |

In addition to above, the Cabinet in its meeting held on 21.05.2015 has approved a new urea plant of 8.648 LMTPA the   existing premises of Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizers  Corporation Limited (BVFCL), Assam which will subsequently replace the existing urea Namrup-II (capacity 2.20 LMTPA) and Namrup-III (capacity 2.70 LMTPA) plants

(c): No no such proposal is under consideration at present: Sir ,

(d):: In view of (c) above, question does not arise

(e): The Government had announced New Investment Policy (NIP) 2012 on January, 2013 and its   amendment on 7th October, 2014 to facilitate fresh investment in the urea sector and to make India self-sufficient in the urea sector Under NIP 2012 read with its amendment; Matix Fertilisers and Chemicals Limitedand Chambal Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited (CFCL) have set up Greenfield and Brownfield urea plantsat Panagarh (West Bengal) and Gadepan (Rajasthan) respectively. Further, Government of India has also notified the New Urea (NUP) 2015 on 25th 2015 for existing 25 gas based urea units with the objective of maximizing indigenous efficiency in urea production; and rationalizing subsidy burden on the Government: NUP-2015 has led to additional   production from the existing gas based urea plants\_ 2nd May, Policy