(TIE)
Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday laid the foundation stone of a Rs 103 crore LPG bottling plant of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) in Odisha’s Bolangir district. The bottling plant will be set up at Barkhani in the district. Expected to be commissioned by March 2020, the new plant spread over 23 acres, will have a bottling capacity of 42 lakh cylinders per year, official sources said.
“Establishment of the second bottling plant of BPCL will be a step towards fulfilling Prime Ministers vision of Purvodaya: A prosperous East for a new India. The new bottling plant will cater to the needs of people of 14 districts of the state,” Pradhan said. BPCL has another bottling plant at Khurda in Odisha. The Bolangir plant will supply LPG cylinders to consumers in Bolangir, Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, Sambalpur, Bargarh, Kalahandi, Sonepur, Koraput, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur, Boudh, Kandhamal, Rayagada and Nuapada districts, the sources added.
