Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate three ambitious projects worth over Rs 9,600 crore in Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s home turf Gorakhpur on Tuesday, including a fertiliser plant, to boost the state’s eastern region’s growth.

The Gorakhpur Fertiliser Plant is one of the three megaprojects, with PM Modi laying the foundation stone on July 22, 2016. It was resurrected after more than 30 years and built at a cost of around Rs 8,600 crore, according to a press release from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).

PM Modi will inaugurate the plant on National Highway 28 about 12 kilometres north of Gorakhpur town on Tuesday, and it will begin producing 12.7 lakh metric tonnes of indigenous neem coated urea annually, with about 3850 metric tonnes produced daily.

“By meeting the demand for urea fertiliser in the Purvanchal region and surrounding areas, it will be of enormous benefit to the farmers.” It will also help the region’s overall economic growth, according to the statement.

The project has been set up by Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Limited (HURL), a joint venture of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Coal India Limited, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Fertilizer Corporation of India, and Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Limited, according to a press release from the PMO.

Gorakhpur Fertiliser Plant’s prilling tower is more than twice the height of Qutub Minar’s (73 m). The tower, which was designed by a Japanese company, stands at 149.5 metres in height. It measures 28 to 29 metres in diameter. This factory, which will cost more than 8,000 crores, will be powered by natural gas, so there will be no pollution.

In 2018, Toyo Engineering Corporation of Japan was awarded the contract to build the large-scale fertiliser complex. Toyo Engineering India Private Limited, Toyo’s Indian subsidiary, as well as HURL, CIL, NTPC, and IOCL as lead promoters, worked together to construct the complex.

According to a press release from the PMO, the project features the world’s highest prilling tower at 149.2 metres, as well as India’s first air-operated rubber dam and a blast-proof control room to improve safety.

The urea plant’s prilling tower at this facility is the tallest among all the fertiliser companies in the country. The Chambal Fertilizer Plant in Kota, with a height of about 142 metres, was the tallest tower before Gorakhpur.