Subject : Monthly Summary of Dept. of Fertilizers for the month March, 2022.

1. Overall production performance during the month :

2. Assessed Requirement, Availability and Sales of fertilizers during the month:

3. Details of Imported Finished Fertilizers during the month:

4. . Incremental progress of Talcher and HURL (Gorakhpur, Sindri and Barauni)

fertilizer projects during March , 2022.

(A). REVIVAL OF TALCHER UNIT:

Cabinet in its meeting held on 04.08.2011 approved revival of Talcher unit of FCIL through nomination basis by forming a Joint Venture of nominated PSUs by setting up gas-based fertilizer plants of 1.27 MMTPA capacity. Accordingly, a JV company was incorporated as Talcher Fertilizers Ltd. (TFL). Equity of GAIL, RCF & CIL in TFL is 31.85% each & FCIL's is 4.45 (%. TFL plant is based on Coal Gasification Technology. The project activities are closely monitored by DoF through monthly review meetings held under the chairmanship of Secretary (Fertilizers).

Incremental Progress:

Overall progress of the TFL project is: -

a) Overall progress of Project upto February, 2022         20.84 %

b) Incremental progress during March, 2022             1.20 %

c) Overall progress upto March, 2022                                        22.04 %

(B) REVIVAL OF GORAKHPUR, SINDRI AND BARAUNI UNITS:

Cabinet in its meeting held on 13.07.2016 approved revival of Gorakhpur &Sindri units of FCIL and Barauni unit of HFCL through nomination basis by forming a Joint Venture of nominated PSUs. Accordingly, a JV company was incorporated as Hindustan Urvarak&Rasayan Limited (HURL). Equity of NTPC, IOCL and CIL is 29.67% each whereas in case of FCIL, it is 10.99%. HURL is setting up three Gas based Urea manufacturing units of 1.27 MMTPA capacity each at Gorakhpur, Sindri and Barauni. The project activities are closely monitored by DoF through monthly review meetings held under the chairmanship of Secretary (Fertilizers).

i. Incremental Progress:

Gorakhpur Project

The Gorakhpur Plant commissioned on 7th Dec 2021.

Barauni Project

a) Overall progress of Project upto February, 2022         94.8 %

b) Incremental progress during March, 2022             0.6 %

c) Overall progress of project upto March, 2022                      95.4%

Sindri Project

a) Overall progress of Project upto February, 2022          94.4 %

b) Incremental progress during March, 2022               0.5 %

c) Overall progress of Project upto March, 2022            94.9%

5. Expenditure position:

As against an available budget (R.E) of Rs. 149054.40 Crore for F.Y. 2021-22,expenditure on administration of fertilizer subsidy during March 2022 was Rs.28897.03 Crore (Urea: 23416.81 Crore, P&K : 5478.51 Crore and City Compost : 1.71 Crore). Progressive expenditure, April 2021 to March 2022 was 157662.20 Crore ( Urea :104892.23, P&K Fertilizers : 52726.26 Crore and City Compost: 43.71 Crore) i.e. 93.25% of the total allocation.