Union Road Transport and Highways, Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari would inaugurate and lay foundation stone for various projects on February 6 at Paradip.
They include inauguration of a polypropylene (PP) plant at the Paradip IOCL refinery and a multipurpose berth to handle clean cargo at the Paradip Port, besides laying foundation stone for a monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant at the Paradip refinery and mechanisation of EQ-1, 2, 3 berths at the Paradip Port.
IOCL Paradip Refinery Executive Director TDVS Gopalkrishna informed this at a Press meet held here on Monday.
Gopalkrishna said Gadkari would inaugurate the 680-KTA polypropylene (PP) plant built at an investment of Rs 3,150 crore, which would increase the Indian Oil's petrochemical capacity to 3.15 MMTPA.
The Minister would also inaugurate a multipurpose berth, with capacity of the 5 MMTPA built with an estimated cost of Rs 430.78 crore, to handle clean cargo including containers on BOT basis at the Paradip Port and the dust suppression system at MCHP completed at a cost of Rs 17.50 crore.
The Paradip railway station building and the Atharabanki RRI built at cost of Rs 15 crore would also be inaugurated by the Union Minister.
Besides, laying foundation stone for the MEG Plant at an estimated cost of Rs 5,654 crore and mechanisation of EQ-1, 2, 3 berths with estimated cost of Rs 1,437.76 crore, Gadkari would also lay stone for development of a new coal berth for handling of coal imports at Paradip Port on BOT basis with a capacity of 10MMTPA to be built at a cost of Rs 655.56 crore.
He would also lay stone for connectivity of IOHP to MCHP at PPT with an estimate cost of Rs 66.47 crore, installation of container scanner at PPT at an estimate cost of Rs 40 crore, second exit from Paradip with flyover, which is to be built with an estimate cost of Rs 94 crore and a multi modal logistics park at Paradip Port to be developed an estimated cost of Rs 200 crore over an area of 100 acre.
Gadkari would also conduct a groundbreaking ceremony for the commencement of work on the LPG Import Terminal at Paradip.
Among others, IOCL WBSO ED Designate Pritish Bharat, IOCL CGM (Petrochemical - Marketing) Sujoy Choudhury, Paradip Port Trust Chairman Rinkesh Roy and S Patnaik were present.