The government has said that fertiliser subsidy arrear stood at Rs 23,283.66 crore till December 2018. It added that some of it would be cleared with available funds and the remaining on receipt of additional funds. Of the total subsidy pending, about Rs 11,293 crore subsidy is on domestic urea and Rs 2,341.16 crore on imported urea, while Rs 5,963 crore on imported phosphate and potassium fertilisers.
Minister of State for Fertilisers Rao Inderjit Singh said the government is releasing subsidy to fertiliser companies on a regular basis subject to the availability of budget. He said the government had a balance fund of Rs 13,056 crore till December 2018, while the expenditure was about Rs 60,383.79 crore. The Budget Estimate for fertiliser subsidy was Rs 73,439.85 crore for the current fiscal.
To streamline the process of certification, he said the government has ‘simplified’ the procedure for inclusion of new fertiliser in the Fertiliser Control Order (FCO). The fertilisers are notified/specified on the recommendation of a central fertiliser committee set up under the 1985 FCO. He also said a committee, constituted following a recommendation of a Parliamentary panel to set up a regulatory authority, is examining the existing mechanism of quality control of fertilisers.
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