Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the expansion of the BPCL’s Bina Refinery at an estimated cost of Rs 50,000 crore in Sagar district in Madhya Pradesh on September 14, a senior official said on Thursday.
The refinery’s capacity (crude distillation/vacuum distillation unit) is 7.7 million metric tonnes per annum and the expansion aims to take this figure to 11 MMTPA, Sagar Collector Deepak Arya told PTI.
The Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited’s Bina Refinery was inaugurated by then prime minister Manmohan Singh in May 2011.
This will be PM Modi’s second visit to Sagar district, in the state’s Bundelkhand region, in the past one month. On August 12, he had laid the foundation stone of the temple-cum-memorial complex of revered spiritual leader Sant Ravidas.