The Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) is setting up an LPG bottling plant with a capacity of filling 42 lakh cylinders per year at Rayagada in Odisha to meet growing demand, top company officials said.
Announcing this to the media here, Dharmendra Behura, HPCL deputy general manager, LPG region, Bhubaneswar, said Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is scheduled to lay the foundation stone for the new LPG plant on February 19.
The new unit will be the second LPG bottling plant of HPCL in Odisha as it already has one at Jatni.
The Rayagada plant, once commissioned, shall supply cylinders to consumers in eleven districts of the State.