BCGCL and MCL Sign Landmark Land Leasing Agreement for Coal to Ammonium Nitrate Project at Lakhanpur, Odisha

• Land leasing agreement between Bharat Coal Gasification and Chemicals Limited (BCGCL) — a CIL–BHEL JV — and Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) for a Coal-to-Ammonium Nitrate plant at Lakhanpur, Odisha.
• Marks India's first coal gasification project deploying indigenously developed gasification technology (BHEL's Pressurised Fluidised Bed Gasification - PFBG).
• UPSC relevance: clean-coal tech, energy security, import substitution (urea/ammonia), PSU JVs, and the Coal Gasification Financial Incentive Scheme, 2024.