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Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers will operate using naphtha till natural gas connection work finishes.

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Mangaluru, March 27: Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers will operate using naphtha-based system till the work on natural gas connection is completed, said the Union minister for chemicals and fertilizers Ananth Kumar on Friday March 27th during a visit to the city.

Addressing the media at Circuit House on Friday, he said, Modi government has given a second chance for the MCF to survive.

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Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers (MCF) will continue to run on naphtha-based system till the completion of the work on natural gas connection to MCF to produce urea. UPA government had promised in 2007 that within two years it would finish the pipeline connection and halt the naphtha-based system on June 31st, 2014. Almost seven years is over and the pipeline work is not yet completed, he said.

Ananth Kumar congratulated MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, and said, MP Nalin Kumar who was concern towards MCF came to me with this matter. We carried discussions to save MCF. We raised this issue in the cabinet meeting and discussed on how providing natural gas through barge or by road would be time consuming. Later we arrived at a conclusion that MCF will run on naphtha-based system till it is given natural gas connection under the ministry of chemicals and fertilizers, he said.

About the controversy surrounded over the death of IAS officer D K Ravi, Ananth Kumar said, the death of IAS officer D K Ravi was a mysterious death which has angered all. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah should have handed over the case to the CBI on the very next day of the death. All sorts of questions could have been avoided if he had handed over the case to the CBI soon after the death of IAS officer D K Ravi.

On this occasion, MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, BJP district president Prathapsimha Nayak, Nagaraj Shetty were also present among others.

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