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The Central government has shown interest in setting up a PCPIR (petroleum, chemicals, petrochemicals investment region) in Mangaluru.
Inaugurating the third edition of Agri Machinery Fair, organised by Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative (Campco) Ltd in Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district on Saturday, Ananth Kumar, Union Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister, said that the government has come out with proposals to set up PCPIRs in different parts of the country.
He said his intention is to set up a PCPIR in Mangaluru in Karnataka also, as it has a petroleum refinery. He said that a meeting will be conducted along with the Mangaluru MP, Nalin Kumar Kateel, and the Petroleum Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, during the winter session of Parliament in New Delhi in this regard.
When press persons wanted to get more details on this proposal after his speech, he evaded answers and said he would elaborate it later.
Later Nalin Kumar Kateel informed the meeting that such a PCPIR could be taken up on 2,000 acres of land already acquired for the establishment of the special economic zone in Mangaluru.
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