Hydrocarbon Vision 2030 (ஹைட்ரோகார்பன் தொலைநோக்கு ஆவணம் 2030)

The hilly states are an attractive destination for small and medium companies from other regions who
look forward to setting up units there to take advantage of excise and other duty incentives offered by
these states. In Assam, for example, apart from the value-added tax (VAT) exemption, microindustries
would also enjoy 30% interest subsidy on term loans, apart from a 30% power subsidy.
The state accounts for nearly 60% of the country’s net polymer production. India's net production
capacity is around six million tonnes per annum. However, at nearly 90,000 TPA, Gujarat currently
accounts for 15% of all-India polymer processing.
Once complete, the Tinsukia Plastic Park is expected to house at least 1,250 downstream plastic
processing units generating over one lakh direct and indirect employments.
Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation Ltd
The Namrup Fertilizer Complex – renamed as Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation Limited after
its bifurcation from the erstwhile Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Limited w.e.f. 1st April 2002 – and
located on the banks of the river Dilli in the south-western border of Dibrugarh District in Assam is the
first factory of its kind in India to use associated natural gas as basic raw material for producing
nitrogenous fertilser. Till the beginning of the sixties, Namrup, a sleepy village, was little known to the
rest of the country. Discovery of oil and natural gas in the Naharkatiya region promoted serious
thinking on proper utilisation of gas which had to be otherwise flared up.
Project planning for Namrup-I Group of plants was started in the middle of 1960 by Hindustan
Chemicals and Fertilizers, which was merged with Fertilizer Corporation on January 1, 1961. After
crossing various hurdles successfully, the foundation stone was laid on January 1, 1966 by the then
Assam Chief Minister Late B P Chaliha and the factory went into stream in August 1968. Commercial
production, however, commenced from January 1, 1969 with annual capacity of only 55,000 MT of
urea and 100,000 MT of ammonium sulphate. Namrup-I was set up at a cost of Rs. 24.96 crore
including foreign exchange of Rs.6.36 crore
it was found that surplus natural gas would be available in the adjoining Moran-Naharkatiya oil fields
of M/S. Oil India Limited. The government decided to gainfully utilise this associated natural gas by
putting up the 2nd unit of Namrup Fertilizer Plant at a cost of Rs. 74.60 crore including foreign
exchange of Rs.23.60 crore. The Namrup-II plant went into commercial production in 1976 with
annual capacity of 3, 30,000 MT of urea.
The availability of surplus natural gas in the Naharkatiya-Moran and Lakwa oil fields led to the addition
of the third unit of the Namrup fertilizer plant at a cost of Rs. 285.55 crore, including Rs. 58.67 crore of
foreign exchange. The plant went into commercial production in 1987 with annual capacity of 3,
85,000 MT of urea.
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