Ahmedabad, 2 May 2013

This information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Chemicals and Fertilisers, Shri Srikant Kumar Jena in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today. Worth to see is that all proposed projects in the field of growth in domestic fertilizer production are State PSU(public sector unit), State JV(joint venture)or cooperative sector.

In view of the increasing gap in demand and supply of urea in the country, M/s Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited (RCF), a urea producing company in the public sector has submitted a proposal of Thal-III (Maharashtra) brown field ammonia-urea expansion project. Likewise, Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation Limited (BVFCL), a urea manufacturing company has submitted a Techno-Economic Feasibility Report for installation of a new Brownfield Ammonia Urea plant (4th unit) at Namrup. Government is also considering the proposal for revival of closed units in the country including Barauni in Bihar. In order to facilitate fresh investments in urea sector, Government has notified a ‘New Investment Policy – 2012’ on 2nd January 2013. In response to the Policy, Department of Fertilizers has received the following proposals from companies. The list of companies who have shown their willingness is as below:

S.No.	Company	Projects		Ownership	State/Country
1	IFFCO-KALOL	Brownfield Ammonia-Urea Expansion Plant at Kalol		Cooperative	Gujarat
2	IGFL-Jagdishpur	Brownfield Expansion urea project at Jagdishpur.		Private	Uttar Pradesh
3	CFCL-Gadepan	Expansion of Ammonia-Urea units at Gadepan-Kota.		Private	Rajasthan
4	KRIBHCO-Hazira		Brownfield Hazira fertilizer unit – Phase-II.	Coopertive	Gujarat
5	TCL-Babrala		Expansion of Urea project at Babrala.	Private	Uttar Pradesh
6	GNVFC-Bharuch		Brownfield Ammonia-Urea project at Dahej.	State JV	Gujarat
7	GSFC-Vadodara		Greenfield Ammonia-Urea project at Dahej.	State PSU	Gujarat
8	NFCL -Kakinada		Expansion of Ammonia-Urea project at Kakinada.	Private	Andhra Pradesh
9	SHRIRAM Shriram Group Companies.		Greenfield Coal Gasification Ammoinia-Urea project at Paradip, Odissa.	Private	Odissa
10	RCF-Thal		Brownfield Ammonia-Urea Expansion project at Thal-III of RCF	CPSU	Maharashtra
11	KF&CL- Kanpur		Brownfield Ammonia-Urea Project at Panki-Kanpur.	Private	Uttar Pradesh
12	KSFL-Shahjahanpur		Brownfield Urea Ammonia project at Shahjahanpur-II.	Private	Uttar Pradesh
13	MATIX Fertilizers & Chemicals ltd.		Greenfield Ammonia-Urea Fertilizers Complex at Panagarh, West Bengal.	Private	West Bengal

 

In addition to above, FACT Cochin and the Government of Tripura has approached Department of Fertilizers for setting up of a 1.3 MMTPA capacity gas based urea fertilizer project each at Cochin and Tripura respectively. The Chief Secretary, Government of Tripura has indicated that gas requirement would be met from ONGC source. The above proposals are under consideration of Department of Fertilizers. It is expected that country would become self sufficient in urea by the end of 12th Plan period.

The possibility of additional capacity of P and K sector may not be encouraging due to limitation of availability of indigenous raw material required for production of P & K fertilizers. The Coromondal International Limited in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh will add capacity of 7.5 LMT of DAP and NPK fertilizers during 2013-14.