Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurates the Rs 35,000-crore 15-million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA) oil refinery of Indian Oil Corporation in Paradip,Odisha on Sunday Feb 07,2016
The Paradip refinery was planned in the early 1990s by the state government then led by Biju Patnaik, but its foundation stone was laid only in May 2000 by then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the new refinery will ensure that rural households in the
country do not cook with firewood or coal. “When a rural woman cooks for
an hour, the smoke she inhales is equivalent to 400 cigarettes. The LPG
gas produced at this refinery would be enough for poor women in rural
areas to start using LPG,” he said.
Praising Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Odisha added 11 lakh new LPG connections within a year since he became the petroleum minister, while it had just about 60 lakh gas connections in the 60 preceding years before that. “This is an example of how work should happen,” he said.
Emphasising the need for energy-sufficiency and less dependence on crude oil, Modi said he has asked officials to bring down total crude oil import by 10 per cent by 2022. “For this, we have to use ethanol from sugarcane and jatropha, and mix them with crude oil,” he said. “After producing sugarcane adequate for sugar (factories), farmers should be encouraged to give away the rest of the cane for ethanol.
The Paradip refinery was planned in the early 1990s by the state government then led by Biju Patnaik, but its foundation stone was laid only in May 2000 by then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Praising Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Odisha added 11 lakh new LPG connections within a year since he became the petroleum minister, while it had just about 60 lakh gas connections in the 60 preceding years before that. “This is an example of how work should happen,” he said.
Emphasising the need for energy-sufficiency and less dependence on crude oil, Modi said he has asked officials to bring down total crude oil import by 10 per cent by 2022. “For this, we have to use ethanol from sugarcane and jatropha, and mix them with crude oil,” he said. “After producing sugarcane adequate for sugar (factories), farmers should be encouraged to give away the rest of the cane for ethanol.
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