The Tripura government, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and a private company signed a tripartite agreement on Tuesday to establish a huge urea fertilizer plant in the State. The State government would have a 10 per cent stake in the Rs. 5,000 crore project which will come up in the Kumarghat area of north Tripura by 2016.

Sudhir Vasudeva, CMD, ONGC, Vice President of the Chambal Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited (CFCL) M.S. Rathore and Secretary of Tripura government Samarjit Bhowmik signed the agreement.

The government is planning to hire a consultant to assess the impact of subsidy on crop nutrients after the introduction of the nutrient-based subsidy (NBS) scheme in 2010.

Fertilizer ministry alleges that GSFC did not pass on subsidy benefit to farmers

The Union chemicals & fertilisers ministry has discontinued the fertiliser subsidy for producing ammonium sulphate (caprolactum grade) to Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd (GSFC), blaming GSFC for not passing subsidy benefits to farmers. “In spite of getting subsidy under the nutrient-based subsidy (NBS) policy, the maximum retail price (MRP) fixed by the company continued to remain at the same level

MoU will be signed to set up natural gas fertiliser manufacturing factory early next month

Oil and gas major ONGC will sign an agreement with the Tripura government to establish a fertiliser manufacturing unit near Kumarghat in Unakoti district.
The MoU would be signed to set up natural gas fertiliser manufacturing factory early next month, state's Industries and Commerce Minister Jitendra Chowdhury told reporters here.

Fertiliser min to oppose planned move to give priority to power sector

The oil ministry’s intent to give priority to the power sector for allocation of gas has raised an alarm in the fertiliser ministry. Sources have indicated that the fertiliser ministry will strongly oppose the move when oil ministry circulates the a note on gas allocation for approval of the empowered group of ministers’ (EGoM). It is also likely to seek higher priority for the fertliser sector so that benefits of cheaper fuel reach the country’s farming community.

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation’s composting plant in Okhla received Rs.25 lakh as carbon credits from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has served fresh notice to 23 industries, who failed to install a device for online monitoring of pollution. They have been asked to install the device by the end of February.

Earlier, the OSPCB had given November 30 deadline to install the device to 29 big industries, out of which only six industries complied. The board had introduced the online monitoring system in September to keep track of hazardous emission by high polluting industries in the state.

The C Rangarajan committee’s proposal to nearly double the domestic price of natural gas, if implemented, could adversely affect the government’s subsidy reduction plan and make the new urea invest

If the price rise is approved, it would raise costs for power and fertiliser companies and other natural gas buyers such as city gas distributors

The pricing of natural gas is set for a major revamp. An empowered group of ministers is likely to approve new policy guidelines based on the Rangarajan committee report; this would more-than-double the price of domestic gas sold by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Oil India. If the price rise is approved, it would raise costs for power and fertiliser companies and other natural gas buyers such as city gas distributors.

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court on Thursday directed the Centre to file an affidavit in a week’s time explaining why the court should not take punitive action against responsible persons for noncompliance of its order to supply CNG to Ahmedabad at a rate supplied to Mumbai and Delhi.

On July 25 last year, the bench headed by Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya ordered for conversion of all public vehicles to CNG and asked the Centre to provide gas to the city at the price at which it was supplied to metro cities.

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