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Odisha: HPCL to soon start work for constructing new LPG bottling plant
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) will start work very soon for construction of a LPG bottling plant at Rayagada with an investment of Rs 91 crore. The plant will be ready by September 2020, official sources said.
The state-owned company has a bottling plant at Jatni in Khurda district. After completion of Rayagada plant work, it will have two bottling plant in the state. Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan will lay foundation stone of the project on Tuesday.
The LPG bottling plant will come up on 21 acres of land near Rayagada railway station. The plant will have the capacity of filling42 lakh cylinders per year. Once commissioned, the plant can supply LPG cylinders to the consumers in 11 districts of the state- Balangir, Kalahandi, Sonepur, Koraput, Malkangiri, Nabarangapur, Boudh, Gajapati, Kandhamal, Rayagada and Nuapada.
“The Rayagada plant will play a major role in catering to the massive increase in demand of LPG from 1.06 lakh per month in 2014 to 2.06 lakh per month in 2019, in these 11 districts,” said Dharmendra Behura, HPCL’s deputy general manager (LPG Bhubaneswar region).
He said HPCL has 26.64 lakh customers as on February 1 and consume about 1.3 crore cylinders in a year. This consumption is expected to increase to 1.6 crore cylinders by 2020. With the LPG demand growing in the state particularly in the western and south-western Odisha, the company took a decision to set up such plant in Rayagada town considering the logistics advantage of the location, he added.
Presently, state has 76.65 lakh LPG consumers as on February 1. Official sources said the demand for packed LPG in Odisha was 3.2 crore cylinder last year, but it may touch 4.3 crore cylinders by 2020.
Oil marketing companies including HPCL, Indian Oil Corporation Limited and Bharat Petroleum have LPG bottling plants at Balasore, Jharsuguda, Khurda and Jatni. Apart from Rayagada, the companies will also set up their plants at Bhubaneswar and Balangir. With the commissioning of three new plants, Odisha will have a total of 7 LPG plants and its capacity will be about 4.06 crore cylinders per annum from 2.8 crore cylinders.
Apart from that, the Union minister will inaugurate three foot over bridges in Rayagada, Ladda and Jimidipeta stations. East Coast Railway has spent Rs 2.44 crore for construction of a FOB with ramp in Rayagada, Rs 1.12 crore each for Ladda and Jimidipeta stations respectively.
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