Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate Bharat Petroleum Corporation’s Integrated Refinery Expansion Complex to the nation at Kochi Refinery on Sunday at 2.30 p.m.
With the successful completion of the project, the facility has achieved a refining capacity of 15.5 million metric tonnes per annum.
The Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stones for a petrochemical complex and a Skill Development Institute.
The institute, promoted by the BPCL along with other oil companies, aims at providing vocational training to the youth and enhance their employability and entrepreneurship in oil and gas industry. Its first campus was set up at INKEL Business Park, Angamaly. The second one will come up on an area of eight acres on Government ITI Campus, Ettumanoor, Kottayam.
The Prime Minister will also inaugurate Indian Oil Corporation’s Mounded Storage Vessel at its bottling plant.
Note of dissent
Meanwhile, former Minister K. Babu urged the Prime Minister not to go ahead with the inauguration of the complex, which according to him, has been fully functioning for the past two years. The Prime Minister, who couldn’t find time to inaugurate the project earlier, chose to inaugurate it now with an eye on the upcoming elections, said Mr. Babu who is also the working president of the Refinery Employees Union.