GUWAHATI: The Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation Limited (BVFCL) at Namrup in Dibrugarh district of Assam will not be closed.

This was informed by union minister of chemicals and fertilizers – Mansukh Mandaviya.

“I want to make it clear that the BVFCL fertilizer plant will not be closed in Assam,” Mandaviya told news agency ANI.

Union minister of chemicals and fertilizers – Mansukh Mandaviya said that the BVFCL in Assam will be modified and a nano urea plant will be set up.

“It will be modernized and a nano urea plant will also be set up there so that the people of this area get employment opportunity,” he said.

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The union minister said that he already spoke to his cabinet colleague Sarbananda Sonowal and Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on the matter.

Mandaviya said: “I had a meeting with union minister Sarbananda Sonowal and also talked to Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma (on the matter).”

This clarification from union minister of chemicals and fertilizers – Mansukh Mandaviya came after reports emerged claiming that the BVFCL in Assam is likely to be shut down.