Lok Sabha Question No. 3054 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-13
Subject: Plastic Parks
Ministry: CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS
Asked by: Shri Arvind Ganpat Sawant, Shri Dharmendra Yadav

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICALS AND PETROCHEMICALS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 3054 ANSWERED ON 13.12.2024

## PLASTIC PARKS

## 3054: SHRI DHARMENDRA YADAV: SHRI ARVIND GANPATSAWANT:

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

- (a) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  set  up  plastic  parks  on  the  lines  of  medical devices  parks,  textile  parks  or  electronic  parks  across  the  country,  if  so,  the  details thereof;S
- (b) the total number of parks set up State-wise including Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh;
- (c) whether the Government provides grants for setting up plastic parks;
- (d) if  so,  the  details  of  funds  provided  for  the  same  to  each  State  including  the  abovementioned States during the last five years;
- (e) whether  the  Government  has  received  proposals  from  various  States  for  setting  up plastic parks; and
- (f) if so, the number of proposals received during the last five years, State-wise including the said States along with the action taken by the Government thereon?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS & FERTILIZERS (SMT. ANUPRIYA PATEL)

(a):The Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals implements a Scheme for  Setting  up of  Plastic  Parks  under  the  New  Scheme  of  Petrochemicals.  Under  this  Scheme,  the Government promotes setting up of need-based Plastic Parks with requisite infrastructure and  enabling  common  facilities. The  objective  is  to  consolidate  and synergize  the capacities of downstream plastic processing industry to help increase investment, production and export in the sector as well as generate employment.

(b) to (d): The Department has approved 10 Plastic Parks in different States of the country. The State-wise details of the approved Plastic Parks are at Annexure-I. Under the Scheme, the Government of India provides grant funding up to 50% of the project cost subject to a ceiling of Rs. 40 crore per project. The details of funds released to the Plastic Parks in the last five years, are at Annexure .

(e) and (f):  For the purpose of setting up Plastic Parks, the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals  seeks  preliminary  proposals  from  State  Governments,  highlighting  the proposed  location,  financial  details,  broad  cost  estimates  etc.  Following  in-principle approval from the Scheme Steering Committee, the State implementing agency is required to submit a Detailed Project Report (DPR) to the Department, which is evaluated and final approval is  given by the Scheme Steering Committee based on the viability of the proposed project. Recently no proposal has been received from any State for setting up Plastic Parks.

In  November,  2020,  the  Department  invited  proposals  from  the  State  Governments  for establishing two new Plastic Parks. Proposals were received from the State Governments of Bihar,  Uttar  Pradesh  (02  proposals),  Karnataka  and  Himachal  Pradesh.  These  were examined  by  an  Expert  Committee,  based  on  which  the  setting  up  of  Plastic  Parks  at Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, and at Ganjimutt, Karnataka, was approved in July, 2022 and January, 2022 respectively.

## Annexure

|   No. | Plastic Park             |   Approval Year |   Total Project Cost (Rs. crore) |   Approved Grant-in- aid (Rs. crore) |   Amount released (Rs. crore) |   Amount released since 2019-20 (Rs. crore) |
|-------|--------------------------|-----------------|----------------------------------|--------------------------------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
|     1 | Tamot, Madhya Pradesh    |            2013 |                           108    |                                40    |                         36    |                                        3.1  |
|     2 | Jagatsinghpur, Odisha    |            2013 |                           106.78 |                                40    |                         36    |                                        6.12 |
|     3 | Tinsukia, Assam          |            2014 |                            93.65 |                                40    |                         35.73 |                                       13.73 |
|     4 | Bilaua, Madhya Pradesh   |            2018 |                            68.72 |                                34.36 |                         30.92 |                                       28.92 |
|     5 | Deoghar, Jharkhand       |            2018 |                            67.33 |                                33.67 |                         30.3  |                                       28.3  |
|     6 | Tiruvallur, Tamil Nadu   |            2019 |                           216.92 |                                40    |                         22    |                                       14    |
|     7 | Sitarganj, Uttarakhand   |            2020 |                            67.73 |                                33.93 |                         18.65 |                                       18.65 |
|     8 | Raipur, Chhattisgarh     |            2021 |                            42.09 |                                21.04 |                          4.21 |                                        4.21 |
|     9 | Ganjimutt, Karnataka     |            2022 |                            62.77 |                                31.38 |                          6.28 |                                        6.28 |
|    10 | Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh |            2022 |                            69.58 |                                34.79 |                         19.13 |                                       19.13 |