Fertilizer Plant at Talcher, Odisha to be Revived Based on Gasification of Coal Technology

The Chemicals & Fertilisers Minister Shri Ananth Kumar has said that he expects the fertilizer plant at Talcher, Odisha will again be re-opened by the Prime Minister by 2019 as being proposed. He was speaking at a function where a Joint Ventures Agreement was signed in the presence Minster of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas (Independent Charge) Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State for Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) Shri Piyush Goyal, and Shri Minister of State for Chemicals & Fertilizers Hansraj Gangaram Ahir, in New Delhi today. He said that Shri Ahir had proposed that similar coal gasification plants for urea production can also be thought of to be located at Gorakhpur, Sindri, Barauni, Ramagundam and other such places. Shri Kumar hoped that such revival packages should make the country surplus in fertilizers by 2019 and we should be able to export fertilizers.