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Jena to take stock of Namrup plant |
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Reporter, GUWAHATI, Aug 19 - The Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers,
Srikant Jena today assured a delegation of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) that he
would visit Assam immediately after the ongoing session of the Parliament to visit
the Namrup Fertilizer unit and the site of the gas cracker project. |
Member
of Parliament Birendra Prasad Baishya and AGP general secretary Sarbananda Sonowal
today met Jena in New Delhi and demanded immediate steps to modernize the Namrup
fertilizer unit. Sonowal said that only one of the three plants of the unit are
now functioning because of the failure of the Government to take effective steps
for its modernization. |
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Sonowal
said that the unit failed to cater to the needs of the farmers of the region and
over the years, the Centre failed to take effective steps for the modernization
of the plants. |
