The Union government has issued revised energy norms under the new urea policy for existing 25 gas based urea plants in the country. This move is likely to save about Rs 800 crore in fertilizer subsidy. The new norms have been issued as per the new urea policy which was cleared by the Cabinet in May this year where the policy has the objective of maximising indigenous urea production and promoting energy efficiency in urea units to reduce the subsidy burden on the government.
As per the norms, all the gas-based urea manufacturing plants are divided into three groups and a specific energy norm is fixed for each plant. Under the first group, plants can consume 5.5 g.cal of gas per tonne of urea, plants under second group can use 6.2 g.cal of gas and those in third group can consume 6.5 g.cal of gas.
Gas constitutes of about 65-70 per cent of the cost of production of urea and cost of gas used is reimbursed by the Government in the form of subsidy. Fertiliser subsidy stood at about Rs 70,000 crore during the last fiscal.
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