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Government approves new Urea Policy

14 May 2015 Evaluate

In order to make India self-sufficient in production of fertilisers in the next four years and ensure timely supply of the soil nutrient to farmers, the government has approved a new urea policy. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while presenting his government's first Budget in July 2014, had announced that the government would formulate a new urea policy.

The new urea policy aims to increase domestic production by 2 million tonnes and reduce government’s subsidy bill by over Rs 4,800 crore annually. Urea is presently under government control and is sold at a highly subsidised rate of Rs 5,360 per tonne. The difference between the maximum retail price (MRP) and the cost of production is reimbursed to manufacturers as subsidy by the central government.

Fertiliser Ministry has said that Union Cabinet approval of a comprehensive New Urea Policy 2015 is for the next four fiscals with multiple objectives of maximising indigenous urea production and promoting energy efficiency in urea units to reduce the government's subsidy burden. The policy will result in direct saving of subsidy of around Rs 2,618 crore and indirect saving of Rs 2,211 crore on account of revised specific energy consumption norms and import substitution, respectively, during the next four years. Total savings would be Rs 4,829 crore. The policy will ensure timely supply of urea to farmers at the same retail price with lesser financial burden on the exchequer, besides reducing import dependence.

Meanwhile the government has decided not to raise retail prices. The maximum retail price (MRP) of urea for farmers has been left untouched at Rs 268 per bag of 50 kgs, excluding local taxes. Farmers would have to pay an additional Rs 14 per bag for neem-coated urea.

India's urea production has remained stagnant at 22 million tonnes (MT) annually and the country has to import about 8 MT to meet the domestic demand. The new policy is also expected to result in an additional production of around 20 lakh tonnes of urea annually.

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