The Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) production plant established in Bhutal Kalan village of Lehragaga area of the district formally started on Tuesday. The first unit of this three-unit plant was formally inaugurated by Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Puri and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
This unit was being run on trial basis from the month of April itself. Now from Wednesday it will be run at full capacity. Established by Germany’s Verbio Company at a cost of Rs 230 crore, the first unit of this plant has a capacity of 33 tonnes of CBG per day. It will consume 300 tonnes per day and 1.30 lakh tonnes per annum.
Chief Minister Bhagwant claimed that two other units of the plant with a capacity of 14.25 tonnes CBG per day would also be completed by the year 2022-23. The plant, spread over an area of 20 acres, has a capacity to produce 550 tonnes of CBG per year, he added. He said that 10 more such bio-gas plants would be set up in Punjab if all the three units would start functioning properly.
Mann said that this plant will prove helpful in stubble management. When all the three units are commissioned in this plant, 16.50 lakh tonnes of stubble will be consumed annually. With this, where the problem of stubble will be solved, the means of employment will also be available. One thousand youth will get employment in this plant.
Mann said that the farmers were burning notes, not straw, for a long time, because not only biogas is produced from the straw, but manure is also being prepared. In Lehragaga unit also manure will be made from stubble. He said that paddy has been sown in 75 lakh acres in the state this year. Out of this, stubble of 37 lakh acres is not burnt. 50% of the farmers burn stubble. These farmers are urged to contribute to the protection of the environment by not burning stubble.
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