Pet-coke Current Affairs, GK & News
GoI: Quota Allocation Procedure for import of Calcined Pet Coke initiated
On April 20, 2020, the Government of India has laid down procedure to allocate quota for the import of calcined pet coke in the financial year 2020-21. Highlights In October 2018, the Government of India permitted imports of certain quantity of pet coke in order to use it as fuel in anode making. Earlier, the ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: Air pollution • cement industry • CO2 emission • DGFT • Green House Gas Emissions • imports • Oil refinery • Pet-coke
India's first Coal-gasification fertilizer plant to come up in Talcher, Odisha
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched commencement of work for India’s first Coal-gasification based fertilizer plant with pet coke blending will come up in Talcher, Odisha. The coal gasification based fertilizer plant is being developed by Talcher Fertilizers Limited (TFL). TFL is joint venture company of GAIL (India) Limited (GAIL-29.67% stake), Coal India Limited (CIL-29.67% stake), ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2018
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Coal Gasification fertilizer plant • Fertilizer Sector • Neem Coated Urea • Odisha • Pet-coke • Science and Technology • Talcher
Government bans pet coke import for fuel use
Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) under Ministry of Commerce and Industry has banned import of petcoke for use as fuel. But it has allowed its import of only for use as feedstock in some select industries such as cement, lime kiln, calcium carbide and gasification industries. These industries were earlier affected by petcoke-related policy flip-flops, which ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2018
Topics: Directorate General of Foreign Trade • Environment • Pet-coke • Pollution
SC bans dirty pet-coke, furnace oil in Haryana, Rajasthan, UP
The Supreme Court banned use of pet-coke and dirty furnace oil in Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh from November 1, 2017 in a bid to reduce air pollution in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR). The apex court bench comprising Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta was hearing on PIL filed in 1985 ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2017
Topics: Delhi • Delhi-NCR • Dirty Furnace Oil • environment pollution control authority • Haryana • Pet-coke • Rajasthan • Supreme court • Uttar Pradesh