NRL Pact with Biren on Bamboo
(The Telegraph) Numaligarh Refinery Ltd on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with Manipur to source bamboo for its upcoming bio-refinery.
The MoU was signed between Bruno Ekka, the senior chief general manager (marketing and business development), NRL, and Sambhu Singh, the additional chief secretary, forest, in the presence of Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh and managing director (in-charge) NRL S.K. Barua during the course of the first Northeast Development Summit in Imphal.
The development summit was inaugurated by President Ram Nath Kovind yesterday.
The MoU will enable sourcing of 1.5 lakh tonnes/annum of bamboo with a total turnover of more than Rs 30 crore by identifying bamboo catchment areas for primary processing by the communities. READ MORE