Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers U. Ananth Kumar on Wednesday assured Telangana that the revival of Ramagundam fertiliser plant was well on course and would be completed in mid-2019 with the Centre pumping in ₹5,500 crore.
“I have been regularly monitoring the work and had even sent my secretary and other senior officials to the site. Within a month, I too will be visiting the construction site and once it’s functional, it will have a urea manufacturing capacity of 13 lakh metric tonnes sufficient for the State,” he said at a press conference.
Though he was here to explain the positive effects of demonetisation and to counter the Congress offensive, he was eager to explain the progress of the fertiliser plant.
He pointed out that as many as 3,000 jobs would be generated once the plant was operational.
Mr. Kumar also said his Ministry has released 1.21 MTs of urea for rabi, which was well above the requirement of one lakh MTs for Telangana.
The Ministry was also setting up the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Educational Research (NIPER) at a cost of ₹600 crore in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
