More funds manure to clear fertiliser dues
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23/09/2008
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Economic Times (New Delhi)
Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI
THE fertiliser ministry has tagged a key note to the committee of secretaries (CoS) on massive dues to the sector, insisting that after October the government needs to put cash where its mouth is. The department of fertiliser has estimated actual pending dues to fertiliser units this year at Rs 1.19 lakh crore, and the budgetary allocation of Rs 30,986 crore has already been spent.
Against that, the department