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Date: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:02 PM
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Ministry of Coal
Sriprakash Jaiswal approves Coal linkage to five super critical
thermal power projects of 7260 MW capacity
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Coal, Shri
Sriprakash Jaiswal has approved the five super critical thermal power
projects of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and Damodar
Valley Corporation (DVC) for grant of coal linkage/authorization of
Letter of Assurance. The projects located in the States of Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Maharashtra, would add up a power
capacity of 7260 MW. These projects would greatly benefit the States
of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and others and will also supply power to
the National Grid for achieving the target of the Twelfth Plan.
The names of these Super Critical Power Projects are as under:
Sl.
No. Name of
Project Sponsoring Agency Capacity
(MW)
1. Nabinagar
Super Thermal Power Project
(erstwhile New
Nabinagar),Dist. Aurangabad,
Bihar. Joint Venture of NTPC & BSEB 3x660
2. Meja Thermal Power Project,
District Allahabad, U.P. Joint Venture of NTPC
and UPRVUNL 2x660
3. Solapur Thermal Power
Project,District Solapur,
Maharashtra NTPC 2x660
4. Mouda Extension, Dist. Nagpur,
Maharashtra NTPC 2x660
5. Raghunathpur Phase-II, Dist.
Purulia, West Bengal DVC 2x660
The Standing Linkage Committee (Long Term) in its meeting held on
12.11.2008 and 29.1.2010 noted that these projects are coming up
during 12th Plan. However, based on the recommendations of Ministry
of Power (MoP), SLC (LT) recommended that as these projects are being
considered for bulk tendering, a decision may be taken by the Ministry
of Coal. The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure has approved bulk
tendering of equipments for these projects and Ministry of Power has
confirmed that these projects fulfill the pre-qualification criteria
for issuance of LOA as 12th Plan projects.
Having regard to the recommendation of MoP, the Ministry
of Coal has approved that Coal India Limited may be authorized to
issue LOA for these five projects with normal conditions of LOA and
normal milestones, to enable them to take necessary action
expeditiously for setting up these projects. Coal India Ltd is being
advised accordingly.
rcj/skk/dk/kol/14:50 hrs.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Prime Minister's Office
PM condoles loss of life in Chilean earthquake, pledges five million
dollars towards relief
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
The Prime Minister has condoled the loss of life in the earth quake
that hit Chile on the 27th Feb 2010. In a letter to President Dr.
Michelle Bachelet of Chile the Prime Minister conveyed his sympathy
over the loss of life and damage to property in the country and as a
token of solidarity with the people of Chile made a contribution of
US$ 5million towards the relief and rehabilitation measures.
The text of the Prime Minister's message is as follows:
"It is with profound sadness that I have learnt of the massive
earthquake that hit Chile on 27th February 2010, causing immense loss
of life and damage to property and infrastructure across the country.
On behalf of the Government and people of India, I would like to
express deep sympathy and condolences to the people of Chile on this
great tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with the members of the
bereaved families.
As a token of our solidarity with the people of Chile, we would like
to make a modest cash contribution of US$ 5 million for relief and
rehabilitation work following the earthquake.
Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration."
sh/lv/vk/rk/dk/kol/14:53 hrs.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Ministry of Steel RAJYA SABHA
Anti-Dumping mechanism
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
The Rajya Sabha was today informed that no representation from any
public sector steel company has been received by the Directorate
General of Anti Dumping & Allied Duties (DGAD&AD) for evolving a time
bound anti-dumping mechanism.
Giving this information in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today,
the Minister of State for Steel Shri A.Sai Prathap said that there is
no general case of imports causing injury to the domestic steel
industry. In specific cases where the domestic industry has filed
application with the DGAD&AD with prima facie evidence of dumping of a
particular category of steel in the country, the petitions have been
duly investigated by DGAD&AD. Wherever appropriate, DGAD&AD has
notified the final findings recommending to the Central Government,
the amount and form of anti-dumping that is sufficient to remove
injury to the domestic industry.
The petitions submitted by domestic industry are processed by DGAD&AD
as per the procedures and within the time limits specified under the
Customs Tariff Act, 1975 as amended in 1995 and the rules made there
under. These laws are in consonance with WTO's Agreement on
Anti-Dumping. As such, therefore, a time bound anti-dumping mechanism
already exists.
dnm/pkm/sb/dk/kol/14:53 hrs.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
World Wide Web Consortium to meet in New Delhi
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international body, which
develops standards to ensure web accessibility to all, will have its
conference in New Delhi on May 6th-7th, 2010. W3C develops
interoperable technologies for specifications, guidelines, software,
and tools to lead the Web to its full potential. It works in tandem
with other standards making bodies such as UNICODE, IETF, ICANN, WI PO
and ISO, especially in the areas related to web technologies and data
interchange through it.
W3C India Office is being launched during this conference to promote
and accelerate participation from India in the W3C standards. The
office has been established under the aegis of Technology Development
for Indian Languages Programme. The futuristic and the very long term
goal is to enable all W3C standards with 22 Indian languages so that
we can achieve seamless web for every citizen. The W3C India office
will work in tandem with all major National Regulatory standards and
Industry associations like TRAI, BIS, NASSCOM, MAIT and others.
The technical sessions during two days conference would cover web
architecture, web accessibility issues such as Styling, Mobile Web,
human machine interfaces, Semantic web, etc. For details, kindly visit
W3C India office website www.w3cindia.com and the Conference website
http://w3cindia.in/conf-site/conference-index.htm
All academic and R&D institutions (Computer Science, ICT & Electronics
& Communication Engineering & Linguistics/ Language), hardware and
software industry language technology researchers & other interested
groups may participate in these sessions and present their work.
Request for making a presentation or attending the conference can be
uploaded on the website of W3C India. No Registration fee is required
for attending the conference.
ncj/dk/kol/14:54 hrs.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Ministry of Urban Development
Standing committee on Urban Development invites suggestions on 'the
Constitution (one Hundred and Twelfth Amendment) Bill,2009
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
'The Constitution (One Hundred and Twelfth Amendment) Bill, 2009
introduced in Lok Sabha on 23 November, 2009 has been referred to the
Departmentally Related Parliamentary Standing committee on Urban
Development, headed by Shri Sharad Yadav, MP as its Chairman for
examination and report.
The constitution (One Hundred and Twelfth Amendment) Bill, 2009 seeks
to amend following clauses of Article 243T of the Constitution that
provides for reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes and also for women in Urban Local Bodies.
(i) In clause (2), for the word 'one-third', the word 'one-half' shall
be substituted.
(ii) In Clause (3), for the word' one-third', the word 'one-half'
shall be substituted,
(iii) In Clause (4), the following shall be substituted, namely:-
"(4) the offices of Chairpersons in the Municipalities shall be
reserved for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and women in
such manner as the Legislature of a State may, by law:
Provided that the number of offices of chairpersons reserved for the
Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in Municipalities in any
state shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the
total number of such offices as the population of the Scheduled Castes
in the State or of the Scheduled Tribes in the state bears to the
total population of that State.
Provided further that not less than one-half of the total number of
offices of Chairpersons reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the
Scheduled Tribes in the Municipalities shall be reserved for women
belonging to the Scheduled Castes or, as the case may be, the
Scheduled Tribes.
Provided also that not less than one-half of the total number of
offices of Chairpersons (including the number of offices reserved for
women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes) in
the Municipalities shall be reserved for women.
Provided also that the number of offices reserved under this clause
shall be allotted by rotation to different Municipalities."
The Committee has decided to invite memoranda containing views of the
individuals/organizations, etc. interested in the subject matter of
the Bill, and also to hear oral evidence on the subject.
Those desirous of submitting memoranda to the committee may send two
copies (either in English or Hindi) thereof to the Director, Lok Sabha
Secretariat, Room No.335, Parliament House Annexe, New Delhi-110001,
(Tel No.23034335, 23034145 and Fax No.23019520,
e-mail-comm.urban@sansad.nic.in) within fifteen days of the
publication of this release indicating whether they would also be
interested in giving oral evidence before the Committee.
The text of the bill is available at Internet add:
http://164.100.24.219/Bills
Texts/LSBillTexts/asintroduced/Cons%20(112amdt)%20100%20of%202009.pdf
tfk/hn/dk/kol/14:54 hrs.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers RAJYA SABHA
Control of drug pricing
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
Various representation received from drug companies from time to time
in the matter of price control on drugs/medicines manufactured by them
are dealt with as per the provisions of Drugs (Prices Control) Order,
1995 (DPCO, 1955). So far as matter regarding consideration of price
fluctuation, either in calendar year or financial year is concerned it
is stated that prices of non-scheduled formulations/medicines (drugs
out of price control) are monitored by National Pharmaceutical Pricing
Authority (NPPA) regularly. As per the prescribed criteria companies
are shortlisted by NPPA where there is an increase in price of a
non-scheduled formulation by more than 10% in one year and the annual
turnover of the formulation pack exceeds Rs. 1 crore. Further, the
share of the formulator in that segment of the formulation is required
to be at least 20% of the market or the medicine is one of the first 3
top brands of that group. The criteria, namely, high turnover and 10%
price increase are designed to identify cases of mass consumption and
to meet the requirement of 'public interest', referred to in para
10(b) of the DPCO, 1995. Wherever any abnormal price increase is
noticed, necessary action is taken. This is an ongoing process. The
price fluctuations need to be assessed each month for this purpose
considering the preceding twelve month period and hence calendar year
or financial year would not be relevant for monitoring the changes in
prices and further action thereon.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Chemicals and
Fertilisers Shri Srikant Kumar Jena in a written reply in the Rajya
Sabha today.
dnm/pkm/sb/dk/kol/14:55 hrs.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers RAJYA SABHA
Restarting of closed fertilizer units
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
Pursuant to Cabinet decision dated 30.10.2008, it has been decided to
explore the feasibility of revival of the closed public sector
fertilizer units of Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Ltd. (HFCL) and
Fertilizer Corporation of India Ltd. (FCIL) subject to assured
availability of natural gas, to meet the emerging demand production
gap of urea in the country. An Empowered Committee of Secretaries
(ECOS) has been constituted with the mandate to evaluate all
investment options for revival of the closed units of FCIL/HFCL and to
make suitable recommendations for consideration of the Government.
ECOS has considered various possible investment options for revival of
each of the closed units and have finalized its recommendations
regarding the suitable options. The recommendations of ECOS are under
consideration of the Government.
The revival of closed plants is likely to reduce the supply and demand
gap regarding availability of urea in the country. As regards prices
of urea to the farmers, urea is made available to farmers at same
maximum retail price irrespective of imported or indigenously
produced.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Chemicals and
Fertilisers Shri Srikant Kumar Jena in a written reply in the Rajya
Sabha today.
dnm/pkm/sb/dk/kol/14:55 hrs.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers RAJYA SABHA
Restarting of closed fertilizer units
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
Pursuant to Cabinet decision dated 30.10.2008, it has been decided to
explore the feasibility of revival of the closed public sector
fertilizer units of Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Ltd. (HFCL) and
Fertilizer Corporation of India Ltd. (FCIL) subject to assured
availability of natural gas, to meet the emerging demand production
gap of urea in the country. An Empowered Committee of Secretaries
(ECOS) has been constituted with the mandate to evaluate all
investment options for revival of the closed units of FCIL/HFCL and to
make suitable recommendations for consideration of the Government.
ECOS has considered various possible investment options for revival of
each of the closed units and have finalized its recommendations
regarding the suitable options. The recommendations of ECOS are under
consideration of the Government.
The revival of closed plants is likely to reduce the supply and demand
gap regarding availability of urea in the country. As regards prices
of urea to the farmers, urea is made available to farmers at same
maximum retail price irrespective of imported or indigenously
produced.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Chemicals and
Fertilisers Shri Srikant Kumar Jena in a written reply in the Rajya
Sabha today.
dnm/pkm/sb/dk/kol/14:56 hrs.
From: Press Information Bureau Ministry of I&B <pib.kolkata@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:02 PM
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Ministry of Coal
Sriprakash Jaiswal approves Coal linkage to five super critical
thermal power projects of 7260 MW capacity
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Coal, Shri
Sriprakash Jaiswal has approved the five super critical thermal power
projects of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and Damodar
Valley Corporation (DVC) for grant of coal linkage/authorization of
Letter of Assurance. The projects located in the States of Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Maharashtra, would add up a power
capacity of 7260 MW. These projects would greatly benefit the States
of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and others and will also supply power to
the National Grid for achieving the target of the Twelfth Plan.
The names of these Super Critical Power Projects are as under:
Sl.
No. Name of
Project Sponsoring Agency Capacity
(MW)
1. Nabinagar
Super Thermal Power Project
(erstwhile New
Nabinagar),Dist. Aurangabad,
Bihar. Joint Venture of NTPC & BSEB 3x660
2. Meja Thermal Power Project,
District Allahabad, U.P. Joint Venture of NTPC
and UPRVUNL 2x660
3. Solapur Thermal Power
Project,District Solapur,
Maharashtra NTPC 2x660
4. Mouda Extension, Dist. Nagpur,
Maharashtra NTPC 2x660
5. Raghunathpur Phase-II, Dist.
Purulia, West Bengal DVC 2x660
The Standing Linkage Committee (Long Term) in its meeting held on
12.11.2008 and 29.1.2010 noted that these projects are coming up
during 12th Plan. However, based on the recommendations of Ministry
of Power (MoP), SLC (LT) recommended that as these projects are being
considered for bulk tendering, a decision may be taken by the Ministry
of Coal. The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure has approved bulk
tendering of equipments for these projects and Ministry of Power has
confirmed that these projects fulfill the pre-qualification criteria
for issuance of LOA as 12th Plan projects.
Having regard to the recommendation of MoP, the Ministry
of Coal has approved that Coal India Limited may be authorized to
issue LOA for these five projects with normal conditions of LOA and
normal milestones, to enable them to take necessary action
expeditiously for setting up these projects. Coal India Ltd is being
advised accordingly.
rcj/skk/dk/kol/14:50 hrs.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Prime Minister's Office
PM condoles loss of life in Chilean earthquake, pledges five million
dollars towards relief
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
The Prime Minister has condoled the loss of life in the earth quake
that hit Chile on the 27th Feb 2010. In a letter to President Dr.
Michelle Bachelet of Chile the Prime Minister conveyed his sympathy
over the loss of life and damage to property in the country and as a
token of solidarity with the people of Chile made a contribution of
US$ 5million towards the relief and rehabilitation measures.
The text of the Prime Minister's message is as follows:
"It is with profound sadness that I have learnt of the massive
earthquake that hit Chile on 27th February 2010, causing immense loss
of life and damage to property and infrastructure across the country.
On behalf of the Government and people of India, I would like to
express deep sympathy and condolences to the people of Chile on this
great tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with the members of the
bereaved families.
As a token of our solidarity with the people of Chile, we would like
to make a modest cash contribution of US$ 5 million for relief and
rehabilitation work following the earthquake.
Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration."
sh/lv/vk/rk/dk/kol/14:53 hrs.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Ministry of Steel RAJYA SABHA
Anti-Dumping mechanism
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
The Rajya Sabha was today informed that no representation from any
public sector steel company has been received by the Directorate
General of Anti Dumping & Allied Duties (DGAD&AD) for evolving a time
bound anti-dumping mechanism.
Giving this information in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today,
the Minister of State for Steel Shri A.Sai Prathap said that there is
no general case of imports causing injury to the domestic steel
industry. In specific cases where the domestic industry has filed
application with the DGAD&AD with prima facie evidence of dumping of a
particular category of steel in the country, the petitions have been
duly investigated by DGAD&AD. Wherever appropriate, DGAD&AD has
notified the final findings recommending to the Central Government,
the amount and form of anti-dumping that is sufficient to remove
injury to the domestic industry.
The petitions submitted by domestic industry are processed by DGAD&AD
as per the procedures and within the time limits specified under the
Customs Tariff Act, 1975 as amended in 1995 and the rules made there
under. These laws are in consonance with WTO's Agreement on
Anti-Dumping. As such, therefore, a time bound anti-dumping mechanism
already exists.
dnm/pkm/sb/dk/kol/14:53 hrs.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
World Wide Web Consortium to meet in New Delhi
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international body, which
develops standards to ensure web accessibility to all, will have its
conference in New Delhi on May 6th-7th, 2010. W3C develops
interoperable technologies for specifications, guidelines, software,
and tools to lead the Web to its full potential. It works in tandem
with other standards making bodies such as UNICODE, IETF, ICANN, WI PO
and ISO, especially in the areas related to web technologies and data
interchange through it.
W3C India Office is being launched during this conference to promote
and accelerate participation from India in the W3C standards. The
office has been established under the aegis of Technology Development
for Indian Languages Programme. The futuristic and the very long term
goal is to enable all W3C standards with 22 Indian languages so that
we can achieve seamless web for every citizen. The W3C India office
will work in tandem with all major National Regulatory standards and
Industry associations like TRAI, BIS, NASSCOM, MAIT and others.
The technical sessions during two days conference would cover web
architecture, web accessibility issues such as Styling, Mobile Web,
human machine interfaces, Semantic web, etc. For details, kindly visit
W3C India office website www.w3cindia.com and the Conference website
http://w3cindia.in/conf-site/conference-index.htm
All academic and R&D institutions (Computer Science, ICT & Electronics
& Communication Engineering & Linguistics/ Language), hardware and
software industry language technology researchers & other interested
groups may participate in these sessions and present their work.
Request for making a presentation or attending the conference can be
uploaded on the website of W3C India. No Registration fee is required
for attending the conference.
ncj/dk/kol/14:54 hrs.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Ministry of Urban Development
Standing committee on Urban Development invites suggestions on 'the
Constitution (one Hundred and Twelfth Amendment) Bill,2009
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
'The Constitution (One Hundred and Twelfth Amendment) Bill, 2009
introduced in Lok Sabha on 23 November, 2009 has been referred to the
Departmentally Related Parliamentary Standing committee on Urban
Development, headed by Shri Sharad Yadav, MP as its Chairman for
examination and report.
The constitution (One Hundred and Twelfth Amendment) Bill, 2009 seeks
to amend following clauses of Article 243T of the Constitution that
provides for reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes and also for women in Urban Local Bodies.
(i) In clause (2), for the word 'one-third', the word 'one-half' shall
be substituted.
(ii) In Clause (3), for the word' one-third', the word 'one-half'
shall be substituted,
(iii) In Clause (4), the following shall be substituted, namely:-
"(4) the offices of Chairpersons in the Municipalities shall be
reserved for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and women in
such manner as the Legislature of a State may, by law:
Provided that the number of offices of chairpersons reserved for the
Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in Municipalities in any
state shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the
total number of such offices as the population of the Scheduled Castes
in the State or of the Scheduled Tribes in the state bears to the
total population of that State.
Provided further that not less than one-half of the total number of
offices of Chairpersons reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the
Scheduled Tribes in the Municipalities shall be reserved for women
belonging to the Scheduled Castes or, as the case may be, the
Scheduled Tribes.
Provided also that not less than one-half of the total number of
offices of Chairpersons (including the number of offices reserved for
women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes) in
the Municipalities shall be reserved for women.
Provided also that the number of offices reserved under this clause
shall be allotted by rotation to different Municipalities."
The Committee has decided to invite memoranda containing views of the
individuals/organizations, etc. interested in the subject matter of
the Bill, and also to hear oral evidence on the subject.
Those desirous of submitting memoranda to the committee may send two
copies (either in English or Hindi) thereof to the Director, Lok Sabha
Secretariat, Room No.335, Parliament House Annexe, New Delhi-110001,
(Tel No.23034335, 23034145 and Fax No.23019520,
e-mail-comm.urban@sansad.nic.in) within fifteen days of the
publication of this release indicating whether they would also be
interested in giving oral evidence before the Committee.
The text of the bill is available at Internet add:
http://164.100.24.219/Bills
Texts/LSBillTexts/asintroduced/Cons%20(112amdt)%20100%20of%202009.pdf
tfk/hn/dk/kol/14:54 hrs.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers RAJYA SABHA
Control of drug pricing
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
Various representation received from drug companies from time to time
in the matter of price control on drugs/medicines manufactured by them
are dealt with as per the provisions of Drugs (Prices Control) Order,
1995 (DPCO, 1955). So far as matter regarding consideration of price
fluctuation, either in calendar year or financial year is concerned it
is stated that prices of non-scheduled formulations/medicines (drugs
out of price control) are monitored by National Pharmaceutical Pricing
Authority (NPPA) regularly. As per the prescribed criteria companies
are shortlisted by NPPA where there is an increase in price of a
non-scheduled formulation by more than 10% in one year and the annual
turnover of the formulation pack exceeds Rs. 1 crore. Further, the
share of the formulator in that segment of the formulation is required
to be at least 20% of the market or the medicine is one of the first 3
top brands of that group. The criteria, namely, high turnover and 10%
price increase are designed to identify cases of mass consumption and
to meet the requirement of 'public interest', referred to in para
10(b) of the DPCO, 1995. Wherever any abnormal price increase is
noticed, necessary action is taken. This is an ongoing process. The
price fluctuations need to be assessed each month for this purpose
considering the preceding twelve month period and hence calendar year
or financial year would not be relevant for monitoring the changes in
prices and further action thereon.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Chemicals and
Fertilisers Shri Srikant Kumar Jena in a written reply in the Rajya
Sabha today.
dnm/pkm/sb/dk/kol/14:55 hrs.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers RAJYA SABHA
Restarting of closed fertilizer units
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
Pursuant to Cabinet decision dated 30.10.2008, it has been decided to
explore the feasibility of revival of the closed public sector
fertilizer units of Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Ltd. (HFCL) and
Fertilizer Corporation of India Ltd. (FCIL) subject to assured
availability of natural gas, to meet the emerging demand production
gap of urea in the country. An Empowered Committee of Secretaries
(ECOS) has been constituted with the mandate to evaluate all
investment options for revival of the closed units of FCIL/HFCL and to
make suitable recommendations for consideration of the Government.
ECOS has considered various possible investment options for revival of
each of the closed units and have finalized its recommendations
regarding the suitable options. The recommendations of ECOS are under
consideration of the Government.
The revival of closed plants is likely to reduce the supply and demand
gap regarding availability of urea in the country. As regards prices
of urea to the farmers, urea is made available to farmers at same
maximum retail price irrespective of imported or indigenously
produced.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Chemicals and
Fertilisers Shri Srikant Kumar Jena in a written reply in the Rajya
Sabha today.
dnm/pkm/sb/dk/kol/14:55 hrs.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
* * * * * *
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers RAJYA SABHA
Restarting of closed fertilizer units
New Delhi: March 5, 2010
Pursuant to Cabinet decision dated 30.10.2008, it has been decided to
explore the feasibility of revival of the closed public sector
fertilizer units of Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Ltd. (HFCL) and
Fertilizer Corporation of India Ltd. (FCIL) subject to assured
availability of natural gas, to meet the emerging demand production
gap of urea in the country. An Empowered Committee of Secretaries
(ECOS) has been constituted with the mandate to evaluate all
investment options for revival of the closed units of FCIL/HFCL and to
make suitable recommendations for consideration of the Government.
ECOS has considered various possible investment options for revival of
each of the closed units and have finalized its recommendations
regarding the suitable options. The recommendations of ECOS are under
consideration of the Government.
The revival of closed plants is likely to reduce the supply and demand
gap regarding availability of urea in the country. As regards prices
of urea to the farmers, urea is made available to farmers at same
maximum retail price irrespective of imported or indigenously
produced.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Chemicals and
Fertilisers Shri Srikant Kumar Jena in a written reply in the Rajya
Sabha today.
dnm/pkm/sb/dk/kol/14:56 hrs.
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