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Union Minister of Chemical and fertilizer visited Brahmaputra valley fertilizer limited
New Delhi: Hon'ble Shri D.V.Sadananda Gowda . Chemical & Fertilizer made his maiden visit to BVFCL Namrup along with Hon'ble Shri Rameswar Teli MoS Food Processing Industry, Shri Tapan Kumar Gogoi ji, MP Jorhat, Shri Naren Sonowal ji, MLA Naharkotia & Shri Terash Gowalla ji, MLA Duliajan.
The Namrup Fertilizer Complex was renamed as Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation Limited after bi-furcation from Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Limited . It is located on the bank of dilli river in the south-western border of Dibrugarh District in Assam. It is the first factory in India, who use natural gas as basic raw material for producing nitrogenous fertilizer.
Till the sixties Namrup was not known to the rest of the country. Discovery of oil and natural gas in Naharkatiya region promoted a serious thinking on proper utilization of gas. Which had to be otherwise to be flared up.
After making detailed techno-economic study, the Kane Committee recommended a fertilizer factory to be located at Namrup. Needless to say that Central Water & Power Commission too recommended favourably setting up of thermal power plant within a few distance from the fertilizer factory at Namrup.
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