Status note by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in Original Application No 620 of 2022 (Kaushal Kishore Vishwakarma Vs State of Punjab & Others) dated 21/02/2024.

The NGT, Principal Bench vide order, January 8, 2024 (Original Application No 620/2022) directed the CPCB to obtain the requisite information from Hindustan Urvarak and Rasayan Ltd. Jharkhand regarding generation and disposal of carbon slurry and also to verify the factual position regarding storage and disposal of carbon slurry in its plant by any similar industries in their jurisdiction.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Paras Nath & Others Vs Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board & Others dated 15/09/2023.

The Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers (2022-23) present this Forty-Fourth Report (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on ‘Fertilizer Subsidy Policy and Pricing matters including need to continue Urea Subsidy Scheme’ pertaining to the Department of Fertilizers , Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

The Standing Committee on Chemical & Fertilizers in its report on Nano Fertilizers listed the benefits of Nano urea and wanted the govt’s fertilizer PSUs to adopt the nanotechnology-based plants for its multiple benefits to the farmers.

The Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on 21st September, 2021 has issued the Fertilizer (Inorganic, Organic or Mixed) (Control) Sixth Amendment Order, 2021. The order provides the procedure, method of calculation and precautions to be followed for determination of zinc, lead, magnesium, arsenic, PH, DTPA soluble zin in fertilizers.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on July 1, 2021 has issued the Fertiliser (Inorganic, Organic or Mixed) (Control) Fifth Amendment Order, 2021 to further amend the Fertiliser (Inorganic, Organic or Mixed) (Control) Order, 1985.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on June 14, 2021 has issued the Fertiliser (Inorganic, Organic or Mixed) (Control) Amendment Order, 2021 to further amend the Fertiliser (Inorganic, Organic or Mixed) (Control) Order, 1985.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on May 31, 2021 has issued the Fertilizer (Inorganic, Organic or Mixed) (Control) Third Amendment Order, 2021 to further amend the Fertilizer (Inorganic, Organic or Mixed) (Control) Order, 1985.

Government of India is reviving five closed fertilizer plants of Fertilizer Corporation of India Limited (FCIL) and Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Limited (HFCL) namely Talcher, Ramagundam, Gorakhpur and Sindri plants of FCIL and Barauni plant of HFCL by formation of Joint Venture Companies of nominated PSUs for setting up new Urea Ammonia pla

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