<p>The Rs.21,500 crore Guru Gobind Singh Refinery near Bathinda town in southwest Punjab will be formally inaugurated next month, a senior official said here Thursday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The project, a joint venture of the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and Mittal Energy Investment Pte Ltd, Singapore, a group company of steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, has become fully operational.<br /><br />"The refinery would be inaugurated in mid-April, changing the industrial scenario of whole Punjab," said Prabh Das, the refinery’s managing director and chief executive officer, after meeting Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal here.<br /><br />The refinery, located over 250 km from here, is the largest investment in Punjab since independence, Das said.<br /><br />He said that it was matter of record that the refinery, where construction started in 2008, has started refining mineral oil in August 2011, less than 48 months later.<br /><br />He said that with the cooperation of the Punjab government, the company could construct crude oil terminal and 1,017-km pipeline between Gujarat's Mundra port and Bathinda in record time of 27 months.<br /><br />Badal said that with the refinery becoming fully operational, a number of tertiary industries would be benefitted in the Bathinda area. Besides, hundreds of youth would get employment in the project, he said.</p>
<p>The Rs.21,500 crore Guru Gobind Singh Refinery near Bathinda town in southwest Punjab will be formally inaugurated next month, a senior official said here Thursday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The project, a joint venture of the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and Mittal Energy Investment Pte Ltd, Singapore, a group company of steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, has become fully operational.<br /><br />"The refinery would be inaugurated in mid-April, changing the industrial scenario of whole Punjab," said Prabh Das, the refinery’s managing director and chief executive officer, after meeting Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal here.<br /><br />The refinery, located over 250 km from here, is the largest investment in Punjab since independence, Das said.<br /><br />He said that it was matter of record that the refinery, where construction started in 2008, has started refining mineral oil in August 2011, less than 48 months later.<br /><br />He said that with the cooperation of the Punjab government, the company could construct crude oil terminal and 1,017-km pipeline between Gujarat's Mundra port and Bathinda in record time of 27 months.<br /><br />Badal said that with the refinery becoming fully operational, a number of tertiary industries would be benefitted in the Bathinda area. Besides, hundreds of youth would get employment in the project, he said.</p>