By Our Correspondent
RANCHI/BARHI: Union Minster for Petroleum & Natural Gas & Steel Dharmendra Pradhan along with Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das and Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda on Friday attended the foundation stone led ceremony of HPCL Bottling Plant at Barhi.
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) a Maharatna and leading Oil Refining & Marketing Company having presence across the country is operating two LPG Bottling Plants at Jamshedpur and Hazaribagh in Jharkhand.
In order to meet the growing demand of LPG in Hazaribag, Kodarma, Giridih, Chatra, Palamu, Deoghar, Dumka, Godda, Sahibganj, Pakur, HPCL is setting up a LPG Bottling Plant of 120 TMT (Thousand Metric Ton) per annum on 26 acre land of Barhi Industrial Area, Village – Korna, Block- Barhi Dist- Hazaribag.
The LPG plant will have storage capacity of 1050 MT and refilling capacity of 45000 cylinders per day. The plant is being setup at an investment of Rs 161.5 Cr and is scheduled completion date is Sept’21. It will generate direct and indirect employment opportunity of 250-260.
