Lok Sabha Question No. 2634 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-04
Subject: Plastic Parks in India
Ministry: CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS
Asked by: Chinta Anuradha, Maddila  Gurumoorthy

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS

## DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICALS AND PETROCHEMICALS LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2634

ANSWERED ON 04.08.2023

## PLASTIC PARKS IN INDIA

## 2634.        SHRIMATI CHINTA ANURADHA SHRI MADDILA GURUMOORTHY

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

- a. the details of the plastic parks established in the country, State-wise;
- b. whether the Government proposes to establish more plastic parks in the country;
- c. if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
- d. whether there is any proposal to establish a plastic park in Andhra Pradesh;
- e. if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor; and
- f. the details of the other initiatives taken/proposed to be taken by the Government to enhance plastic processing?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  FOR  CHEMICALS  AND  FERTILIZERS  &  NEW  AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

## (SHRI BHAGWANTH KHUBA)

- (a)       The Department implements the Scheme for setting of Plastic Parks which is a subscheme under the Central Sector Scheme of New Scheme of Petrochemicals.  So far, ten Plastic Parks have been approved in the States of Assam, Madhya Pradesh (two Plastic Parks), Odisha, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh and the same are currently in various stages of completion. The details about the sanctioned Plastic Parks are as follows:
- (b) and (c)     At present, the Department is not considering establishment of more Plastic Parks and is  focusing  on  successful  completion  and  operationalization  of  the  above  10  approved Parks.
- (d) and (e)   Currently, there is no proposal to establish a Plastic Park in Andhra Pradesh. No application/ proposal has been received from the State Government for setting up a Plastic Park in the State.
- (f)    The other initiatives taken by the Government to enhance plastics processing are:
1. Centres of Excellence:- To promote the research and development in polymer and plastics the department has established 13 Centres of Excellence in various national level institutes.
2. Skilling of Workforce:- Central Institute of Petrochemical Engineering and Technology is conducting many short term and long term courses in Plastics processing and Technology to cater to the skilling requirement of the industry.

| S.No   | Location of Plastic Park   | Final Approval date   | Land area (Acre)   | No. of Plots   | Total Project Cost (Rs cr)   | Total GoI support approved for the project (Rs cr)   | GoI support released till date (Rs cr)   |
|--------|----------------------------|-----------------------|--------------------|----------------|------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|

|   1. | Tamot, Madhya Pradesh        | Oct., 2013   |    122 |   155 |   108.00 |   40.00 | 35.90   |
|------|------------------------------|--------------|--------|-------|----------|---------|---------|
|    2 | Paradeep, Odisha             | Oct., 2013   | 120    |    80 |   106.78 |  40     | 36.00   |
|    3 | Tinsukia, Assam              | Feb., 2014   | 173    |   104 |    93.65 |  40     | 35.73   |
|    4 | Deoghar, Jharkhand           | Dec., 2018   |  93    |   107 |    67.33 |  33.67  | 30.30   |
|    5 | Bilaua, Madhya Pradesh       | Dec., 2018   |  93    |   107 |    68.72 |  34.36  | 30.92   |
|    6 | Thiruvallur Tamil Nadu       | July, 2019   | 239.82 |    79 |   216.92 |  40     | 22.00   |
|    7 | Sitarganj, Uttarakhand       | Dec., 2020   |  40    |    45 |    67.73 |  33.93  | 18.64   |
|    8 | Sarora, Raipur, Chhattisgarh | April, 2021  |  47.29 |    55 |    42.09 |  21.045 | 4.21    |
|    9 | Ganjimutt, Karnataka         | Jan., 2022   | 112    |    53 |    62.78 |  31.38  | NIL     |
|   10 | Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh     | April, 2022  |  88    |    92 |    69.58 |  34.79  | NIL     |

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