Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said on Wednesday that the proposed oil refinery project would not come up at Nanar village in Ratnagiri district and an alternative site for the project has been identified.
Addressing a press conference on the last day of the budget session, Mr. Thackeray said, “I do not change my stand. This may be a beneficial project for the state, but the locals are against it. Some people met me saying that they had bought plots near the proposed site. I am not going to change my decision for them. We are committed to the local people. ”
Shri Thackeray said that oil refinery will not come in Nanar. “I appeal to all of you to no longer call it the Nanar Oil Refinery Project. It is only an oil refinery project.
The Chief Minister said that the project will proceed to alternate location with the consent of the local people. He said, “The government knows that it cannot abandon such a big project. Projects bring money, but the environment is also an issue. Local people have protested this over environmental concerns. “
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray wrote a letter to him requesting that Nanar not be transferred.
Ratnagiri Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited was proposed to be established in 2015 in Ratnagiri district as a joint venture between joint investors such as Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum and Saudi-owned Aramco.
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