Revival of closed fertilizer plants

Government of India is reviving five closed fertilizer plants of Fertilizer Corporation of India Limited (FCIL) and Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Limited (HFCL) namely Talcher, Ramagundam, Gorakhpur and Sindri plants of FCIL and Barauni plant of HFCL by formation of Joint Venture Companies of nominated PSUs for setting up new Urea Ammonia plants of 12.7 Lakh metric tonne per annum capacity each.

The details of said fertilizer plants are as under:

Sl. No.	Name of Fertilizer plant	Equity contribution by PSUs	Date of incorporation of JVC	location of the plant	Expected Date of Commissio-ning
1	Talcher Fertilizers Ltd.	RCF  29.67% CIL     29.67% iii.GAIL 29.67% iv.FCIL   10.99%	27.10.2015	Talcher, Odisha	Sept, 2023
2	Ramagundam Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd.	NFL                   26% EIL                     26% iii. FCIL                 11% iv. StateGovt.        11%   of Telangana GAIL               14.3% HTAS Consortium  11.7%	17.02.2015	Ramagundam, Telangana	May, 2020
3	Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Ltd.	NTPC    29.67% ii. IOCL    29.67% CIL        29.67% FCIL    10.99%	31.10.2016	Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh	Feb, 2021
4	Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Ltd.			Sindri, Jharkhand	May, 2021
5	Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Ltd.			Barauni, Bihar	May, 2021

Subsequent to commissioning/ start of the above plants, the indigenous urea production will be enhanced by 63.5 Lakh Metric Tonne per year leading to corresponding reduction in import of urea.

This information was given in a written reply by the Minister for Chemicals & fertilizers, Shri. D.V. Sadananda Gowda in Rajya Sabha today.

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