Lok Sabha Question No. 332 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-02-05
Subject: New Fertilizer Plants
Ministry: CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS
Asked by: DEVJI MANSINGRAM PATEL, RITI PATHAK, JUGAL KISHORE SHARMA

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 332 TO BE ANSWERED ON 05.02.2019

## New Fertilizer Plants

## 332\_ SHRI DEVAJIBHAI G.FATEPARA:

SHRIMATI RITI PATHAK:

SHRI JUGAL KISHORE::

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

- (a) whether the Government proposes to establish new unitslplants for production of chemical fertilizers;
- if so, the details thereof; (6) whether the Government also proposes to establish any plant with foreign assistance to overcome the shortage of fertilizers in the country;
- if the details thereof; and SO,
- the additional steps proposed to be taken to give an impetus to the domestic production of the fertilizers?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE  (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING; AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS & FERTILIZERS

## (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

(a) & (b): No Madam, there is no proposal of Government of India to establish new unitslplants for production of chemical fertilizers; However, Government of India is reviving 5 closed fertilizer plants of Fertilizer Corporation of India Ltd. (FCIL) and Hindustan Fertilizer   Corporation Ltd. (HFCL) namely Talcher, Ramagundam, Gorakhpur and Sindri plants of FCIL and Barauni plant of HFCL by setting up new Ammonia Urea plants of 12.7 Lakh metric tonne per annum capacity each using state of the art technology, in the following states:-

| SI: No.   | Name of Fertilizer plant                | Name of location & State where plant is located   |
|-----------|-----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|
| 1         | Talcher Fertilizers Ltd.                | Talcher, Odisha                                   |
| 2         | Ramagundam Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. | Ramagundam, Telangana                             |
| 3         | Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Ltd. (HURL) | Gorakhpur; Uttar Pradesh                          |
| 4         | Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Ltd. (HURL) | Sindri, Jharkhand                                 |
| 5_        | Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Ltd. (HURL) | Barauni, Bihar                                    |

The production capacity of each of above 5 plants is 12.7 Lakh metric tonne per annum In addition to above, Cabinet on 21.05.2015 approved the setting up of a new Ammonia Urea complex of 8.646 LMTPA capacity at Namrup within the existing premises Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation \_Limited (BVFCL)

- (c) Madam No,

(d) : Does not arise\_

(e) The Government has notified New Investment Policy 2012 on 2nd January, 2013 and its amendment on 7th October, 2014 to facilitate fresh investment in urea sector and to make India self-sufficient in the urea sector. Under the provisions of NIP 2012 and its amendment, Matix Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited  (Matix) has set up a Coal Bed Methane (CBM) based Greenfield AmmoniaUrea complex at Panagarh, West Bengal. The commercial production of Matix has started on 1st October; 2017. However, at present MATIX plant is  non-operative due to non-availability supply of Natural gas. Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (CFCL) has set up a brownfield project at Gadepan , Rajasthan, which started commercial production of urea.