Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu on December 27, 2019 dedicated to the nation, the LPG bottling plant at Balangir in Odisha via video conferencing from Raipur in Chhattisgarh.
Facts ( Bottling plant)
- The bottling plant has been established at an expenditure of 103 crore rupees and has capacity of manufacturing 42 lakh cylinders annually.
- The bottling plant will benefit residents of 14 western Odisha districts.
- The State will soon have seven LPG bottling plants with two more plants coming up at Bhubaneswar and Rayagada.
- While the current bottling capacity of the existing four plants is 2 crore 80 lakh cylinders per annum, the bottling capacity will increase to 4 crore 6 lakh cylinders annually once all seven plants start production.
