Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has announced plans for a mega chemical park near Vadhvan Port and asked the Centre to approve the project, with the state offering between 2,500 and 5,000 acres for its development.
Fadnavis made the announcement at the inauguration of Indochem in Goregaon. He said the Maharashtra government was willing to make the required land available and urged the Union government to sanction the proposed chemical park.
The proposed location is significant because Dahanu taluka in Palghar district had previously been designated an ecologically sensitive zone. The announcement therefore places the proposed industrial development in a region with an established environmental sensitivity, although the supplied report does not provide details of the project’s environmental assessment, approval status or proposed safeguards.
Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers JP Nadda said the Centre had already announced the Bhavya Rasayan scheme in the Union Budget. Under the scheme, the Centre will provide Rs 1,000 crore, while the state government will contribute Rs 500 crore.
Nadda also said the Centre would facilitate environmental clearances for the scheme. The report does not specify whether the proposed chemical park near Vadhvan Port would be funded entirely through the Bhavya Rasayan scheme or how the stated central and state contributions would be allocated to the project.
The announcement links the proposed park to the Centre’s Viksit Bharat vision and its stated goal of building a $1 trillion economy by 2040. It also places the project within the broader effort to expand chemical-sector capacity through coordination between the Union and Maharashtra governments.
For the Vadhvan Port region, the proposal could bring a large industrial land requirement alongside a new institutional process involving land allocation, central approval and environmental clearances. However, the announcement does not yet establish a construction timeline, the number or type of proposed industrial units, the expected employment generation, the project’s logistics plan or the arrangements for managing chemical waste and other environmental risks.
The next formal milestone is the Centre’s decision on the state government’s request to sanction the proposed chemical park. Further details on the land parcel, project configuration, funding structure and environmental clearance process were not provided in the announcement.
