DEPARTMENT OF FERTILIZERS: AN OVERVIEW
Department of Fertilizers comes under the ambit of Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers The main objective of Department of Fertilizers is to ensure adequate and timely availability of fertilizers at affordable prices for maximizing agricultural production in the country. The main functions of the Department of Fertilizers include planning, promotion and development of the fertilizers industry, planning and monitoring of production, import and distribution of fertilizers and management of financial assistance by way of subsidy / concession for indigenous and imported fertilizers. List of subjects allotted to the Department of Fertilizers as per Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961 amended from time to time is given at Annexure – A.
Vision Statement:
Achieving fertilizer security for the country for sustainable agricultural growth supported by a robust domestic fertilizer industry of the Department of Fertilizers. The ultimate goal is to achieve data driven policy making by using data- based insights for redesigning the implementation mechanisms of Government interventions.
Mission Statement:
Ensuring adequate and timely availability of quality fertilizers at affordable prices in each cropping season to the 140 million farmers across the country through planned production and imports and distribution of fertilizers in the country and planning for self-sufficiency in urea production is Mission of the Department of Fertilizers.
Attached Offices & Fertilizer PSUs:
The Department has one attached office under it, viz., Fertilizer Industry Coordination Committee (FICC) headed by Executive Director which is responsible to evolve and review periodically, the group concession rates including freight rates for units manufacturing nitrogenous fertilizers, maintain accounts, make payments and to recover amounts from fertilizer companies, undertake costing and other technical functions and collect and analyze production data, costs and other information. Besides, Department of Fertilizers also has 9 Fertilizer Public Sector Undertaking (PSUs) i.e. RCF/NFL/MFL/FACT/BVFCL/FAGMIL/PDIL/FCIL/HFCL which are under its administrative control.
Divisions/Attached Offices:
The Department of Fertilizers consists of following divisions/attached offices dealing with:
- Urea Pricing Policy (UPP Division).
- Fertilizers Projects (FP Division).
- Phosphatic & Potassic Fertilizers (P&K Division)
- Joint Ventures abroad (IC Division).
- Fertilizer Imports, Movement and Distribution (Movement Division).
- PSU Division (dealing with PSUs) & Board Level appointments.
- Fertilizer Industry Coordination Committee (FICC), an attached office.
- Fertilizers Subsidy (FS Wing) dealing with payment of subsidy.
- General administration, Establishment, Parliament, Information Technology, RTI matters.
- Coordination Division.
- Planning, Monitoring and Innovation (PMI).
- Finance and Budget (IFD).
- Vigilance Division.
- Shipping Division.
- Official Language (Hindi Cell).
- Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT).
- Promotion of organic fertilizers.
- SSP Cell.
- Fertilizers Innovation.
- Fertilizers Act.
