Straw-based brick plant comes up in Patiala

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Updated At : 12:07 PM Dec 19, 2020 IST

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Chandigarh, December 18

To reduce stubble burning and check environmental pollution, CM Capt Amarinder Singh today virtually inaugurated the country’s first-of-its-kind paddy straw-based briquetting plant of 100 tonne per day capacity in Patiala.

Confident that more such plants would come up to ease stubble burning problem, the CM said the low calorific value of 3,500 for briquettes (as compared to 7,000 for coal) was balanced out economically since coal costs Rs 10,000 per tonne against Rs 4,500 per tonne for briquette. The plant has been set up at Kulburchan village at a cost of Rs 5.50 crore.

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