The Minister of State for Chemicals & Fertilizers, Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said in response to a question in the Lok Sabha that there is no proposal with the Government to invite the private sector in distribution of Fertilizers.
Readers would recall that the Government has approved revival of Talcher and Ramagundam units of FCIL for setting up of 1.27 MTPA Ammonia-Urea Complex each at a total estimated cost of Rs. 8700 crore and Rs. 5300 crore respectively.
Talcher unit to be revived through nomination route by a consortium of PSUs namely Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers, GAIL India Ltd, Coal India Limited & FCIL, and Ramagundam unit to be revived through nomination route by a consortium of PSUs namely Engineers India Limited & National Fertilizers Limited & FCIL. The project activities are in its initial phase.
Earlier, the Union Cabinet in its meeting in June had approved setting-up of a Brown Filed Ammonia Urea Complex of 8.646 LMTPA urea production capacity in Joint Venture with an estimated project cost of Rs. 4412 Crores.