New Delhi, Dec 24
The Centre’s Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals has approved 10 Plastic Parks, which are at different levels of implementation across various states, aimed at enhancing investment, production and exports as well as employment in the country, according to a year-end review released on Tuesday.
The new and safer pesticides developed by the Centre’s Institute of Pesticide Formulation Technology (IPFT) and the successful India Chem 2024 conference also figure in the review.
Under the scheme for setting up plastic parks, the Department promotes the setting up of need-based plastic parks with requisite infrastructure and enabling common facilities. The objective is to consolidate and synergize the capacities of downstream plastic processing industries.
The new scheme for petrochemicals also includes a scheme for setting up Centres of Excellence and the Petrochemicals Research & Innovation Commendation Scheme.