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Government of Assam R. K. Dutta, Commissioner and
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and it also attracted resistance from local residents who were to be displaced. The construction of the BCPL Petrochemical
Complex begun at Lepetkata on 9 April 2007 after it was launched in a ceremony by then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Lepetkata was chosen as it did not require any displacement
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The board of directors of the company includes representatives from all of its four stakeholders. It consists of chairman and managing director of the GAIL Manoj Jain as its chairman, managing director of the BCPL Reep
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with some of its employees tested positive and treated for the viral infection. Its chief manager Manab Jyoti
Dowerah died of the infection in April 2021. However, the company successfully managed to operate in the financial year 2020–21 achieving even 106% capacity utilisation with a turnover of
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used to be the controlling agency of the project until 24 December 2019 when the
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, headed by the Prime Minister, of the Government of India approved its transfer to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
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of people and much of the 992-acre (401 ha) land demarcated for the project there belonged to different tea estates and the Assam
Government. The initial total budget estimate for constructing the BCPL Petrochemical Complex was
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are the different petro-products and polymers produced by the plant currently and two production units for
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