SUMAN K SHRIVASTAVA
Ranchi, January 14: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is yet to decide on his programme to inaugurate the Sindri unit of Hindustan Urvarak Rasayan Limited (HURL) when he visits Dhanbad.
The BJP state unit was preparing for Modi’s visit to Dhanbad on January 27. BJP state president Babulal Marandi held a meeting in the Dhanbad district office a couple of days ago, given the PM’s plan to address a public meeting at Balliapur Airport grounds.
BJP general secretary Pradeep Verma said we have not received the prime minister’s visit schedule. “We were getting ready for the PM’s programme given his plan to inaugurate the Barauni fertiliser plant in Bihar,” he added.
BJP sources said the PM’s programme was there but has been deferred, given the prime minister’s engagements with foreign dignitaries a day after the Republic Day.
Sources in New Delhi said that the prime minister has to inaugurate the newly set up fertiliser plants in Sindri and Barauni (Bihar), but the date is yet to be fixed.
Notably, Modi laid the the foundation stone of HURL Sindri (Jharkhand), Barauni (Bihar) and Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), a project of over Rs 18,000 crores simultaneously on May 25, 2018, in Dhanbad.
Modi’s ambitious project
Modi’s ambitious project began its trial run in November last year. The HURL Sindri had dispatched its first commercial production for Babadham (Deoghar).
Annual target 11.75 lakh MTs
The Sindri plant will produce 3850 tonnes of urea and 2250 metric tons of ammonia daily. The plant has a target of producing 11.75 lakh metric tons annually. Since Fertilizer Corporation India (FCI) Sindri shut down in December 2002 during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led central government, Prime Minister Modi had made the HURL Sindri’s ambitious project is to compensate for the loss in 2002.
