Maharashtra: Instead of refinery, pharma city to come up at Raigad
In a move that will further push the Rs 3 lakh crore Ratnagiri refinery and petrochemical project into cold storage, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government has denotified the 19,146-hectare land reserved in Raigad district by the previous Devendra Fadnavis-led government for the mega oil refinery. Sources said the land is now being ‘renotified’ for setting up an integrated pharmaceutical city in Raigad.
The Shiv Sena has been averse to the oil refinery project coming up in Konkan. The facility, which was to come up at Nanar, was cleared by the Centre and state government in December 2015, and was to pass through land spread across 17 villages in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts.
