PMO asks Fertiliser Ministry for status report on urea investment policy, sick urea plants

01 Oct 2012 Evaluate

Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has asked the Fertiliser Ministry for a status report on the revival of closed or sick urea plants and the proposed New Urea Investment Policy. This decision follows the PMO asking Department of Fertilisers last week to submit an updated brief on the status of possibilities for investing in fertiliser assets in foreign countries.

The government had announced a 'New Investment Policy' in 2008 to boost urea production, but the scheme failed to attract fresh investments and in February this year, a Group of Ministers (GoM), headed by Pranab Mukherjee, the then Finance Minister, had approved a new investment policy for the urea sector. The GoM later had suggested some changes in the new policy, following which it has been put up for inter-ministerial consultations, after that it will be sent for the approval of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA). It is expected that with the implementation of the investment policy, the country will become self sufficient in manufacturing urea in the next five years.

Recently, the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) has given the nod for revival of three closed urea units of the Fertilizer Corporation of India (FCIL) through joint venture/special purpose vehicle (SPV) route by the nominated state-run firms. The Talcher unit in Odisha will be revamped by Coal India and Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers (RCF), the Sindri unit in Jharkhand by the Steel Authority of India and National Fertilizers, and the Ramagundam unit in Andhra Pradesh by Engineers India and National Fertilisers.

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