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Dharmendra Pradhan urges Odisha CM to speed up land acquisition for IOCL

IOCL is in the process of finalising Rs 400 billion of investments in new projects in Odisha

Dharmendra Pradhan, Pradhan
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Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

Nirmalya Behera Bhubaneswar
Worried over delay in allotment of land to Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for putting up new plants, Union minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan has written to the Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to expedite the matter.

It may be noted that IOCL is in the process of finalising Rs 400 billion of investments in new projects in Odisha such as PC (polypropylene complex)/PTA (purified terephthalic acid) project, petcoke gasification based projects and refinery capacity expansion project from 15 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) to 25 mtpa at Paradip. Besides, IOCL is also participating in the textile