Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of Godavari river, Telangana, 29/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …

More funds manure to clear fertiliser dues

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 …

Dow in the dumps?

Dow Chemicals may run into trouble with its Indian investments. On August 8, Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizer Ram Vilas Paswan met some of the victims of the Bhopal gas leak disaster at their protest site in New Delhi and promised them action against the company. An empowered committee …

State holds Centre responsible

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government blamed the Centre for not supplying required quantity of fertilisers even as Congress demanded an impartial inquiry by an Assembly Committee into the artificial scarcity created for blackmarketing it and the failure of the administration to check this. The issue cropped up in the Assembly on …

Govt clears Rs 22,000-cr fertiliser subsidy

The government has decided to release Rs 22,000-crore subsidy in cash to the fertiliser industry this fiscal, apart from the budgetary allocation of Rs 32,000 crore, chemicals and fertiliser minister Ram Vilas Paswan said here today. "Total fertiliser subsidy is estimated to be Rs 1.19 lakh crore in 2008-09 while …

State still needs 30,000 tonnes of complex fertilizers

BHUBANESWAR: Even as the Centre has made additional allocation of 40,800 tonnes of chemical fertilisers for July, the State is still facing a shortage of 30,000 tonnes of complex fertilisers. The additional allocation was made following a request from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers …

Govt may open gates to plastic scrap imports

THE government is discussing a proposal from 22,000 plastic processing units in the country to import a cheap raw material alternative

Paswan serious about Chiria mines

BOKARO (Jharkhand): Union chemical, fertiliser and steel minister, Mr Ram Vilas Paswan today announced plans for setting up of a 12 million ton greenfield steel plant in Jharkhand, but only if the iron ore dispute is settled with the Jharkhand state government. "The steel ministry is keen to set up …

Why delay pharma policy?

A parliamentary panel has pulled up the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals for delay in finalising the National Pharmaceutical Policy, 2006. In its report, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers has observed that despite its recommendation for finalising the policy, the department remained static on such a crucial …

Saving Dow?

July 10, 2006: Industrialist Ratan Tata writes to Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram recommending setting up of a site remediation fund. "Tatas would be willing to spearhead and contribute to such an exercise

New drug pricing policy flawed, say critics

the Union ministry of chemical and fertilisers has from November 2, 2006, enforced a new drug pricing system covering 886 generic medicines produced by 11 pharmaceutical companies. As against the 200 per cent and more margin earlier charged by wholesalers and retailers, now the former will get a 15 per …

Row over rifampicin

THE STAKES are high in the rifampicin (a new anti-TB drug) sweepstakes. Lupin Laboratories presently dominates the market, which, according to the ministry of chemicals, did a business of Rs 236 crore during 1992-93. To break the monopoly, which enables Lupin to charge as much as 15 per cent more …

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