Maharashtra government officials have said that the multi-crore Nanar Refinery project which was proposed to be set up in Ratnagiri, with participation from Saudi Arabia and UAE, has not been scrapped but will be relocated elsewhere. They claimed that only the land acquisition notification on Ratnagiri would be withdrawn and the government has already started looking out for alternative land for the refinery project.
“We are looking at Sindhudurg and areas near Thane district. There are other sites as well. We hope to finalise it by next month,” a state government official said.
The task may not be easy as the state needs 14,000 acres for the refinery project and locals in Sindhudurg are already up in arms over their land being acquired for a number of projects.
