 Governor Justice P Satasivam, Chief Minister, Sipindanai Bijanji, my colleague in Union Government, Dharmendra Pradhanji, Sri Alphonsee, MP Sri K. B. Thomas, MP Professor Richard He, MLA, Sri BP Sajindaran, Kojhile Sahodari Sahodaran, I am happy to be here at Kochi, the King of Arabian Sea, the blue sea, the backwaters, the Great Perrier River, the greenery all around, and its dynamic people make Kochi indeed a queen among the cities. It was from here that the greatest Indian sage, Adi Shankar, embarked on its epic journeys across India to protect the Indian civilization and unify the country. Today is a historic day when the largest industrial unit of Kerala is entering in next phase of development. It is indeed a proud moment, not just for Kerala, but also for the entire nation. Bharat Petroleum's Kochi in Refinery has played a critical role in popularizing the clean fuel LPG among masses in Kerala and neighboring states for more than 50 years. I recall my childhood when I had seen many mothers struggling with the firewood straw in the kitchen. Ever since, I had always thought of improving their situation and providing healthy teachings to the mothers and sisters of India. The Ujwala scheme of the government of India is a way to realize the dream. I am happy that since May 2016, nearly 6 crore LPG connections have been provided to the poorest of the poor in our country under Ujwala Ayuzhana. Friends, more than 23 crore LPG consumers have joined the Pahal scheme. Pahal has helped in identifying ghost accounts, multiple accounts, and inactive accounts. Pahal has entered into the Guinness Book of World Records at the largest direct benefit transfer scheme in the world. Over 1 crore customers have given up LPG subsidy under Give It Up initiative by doubling the LPG production with the help of recent expansion. Kochi Refundry is making a great contribution toward Ujwala. To overcome environment pollution, the government of India is promoting the use of environment friendly transport fuel, that is CNG, by expanding the coverage of city gas distribution network in the country. After the successful completion of 10th CGD bidding round, more than 400 districts of the country will be connected for providing pipe gas supply. The national grid or Pranamanti Urjaganga has also been created to have a gas-based economy and enhance the share of gas in the energy basket. The government has thought of developing additional 15,000 km of gas pipeline network to cut down on import of crude oil. Government has taken decisive steps towards reducing imports by 10% and saving precious foreign exchange. To this end, the second generation ethanol to ligno-cellulose route has been adopted by oil PSU for establishing 12 2G ethanol plants in 11 states. 6 MOs have already been signed in this direction. The Indian refinery industry has done well in establishing itself as a major player globally. India, which is second largest oil refinery in Asia, is emerging as a refinery hub with refining more than its demand. The country's refinery capacity is currently more than 247 mmTPA. I take this opportunity to congratulate all for the timely completion of IREP. Last but not the least, I recognize the work of all those laborers who work day and night during construction. I am told that at the peak of the project, over 20,000 laborers were working at the site. In many states, they are the real heroes of this project. The integrated refinery expansion project was also a strategic move of Bharat petroleum to diversify into non-fuel sector. My friends, petrochemicals are a grade of chemicals which we do not speak much about, but they exist invisibly and touch many aspects of our daily life. This includes building materials, plastic and paints, footwear, clothing and other fabrics or automotive parts, cosmetics and medicines. However, most of these chemicals are imported from other countries. It is our endeavor to see that these petrochemicals are manufactured in India itself. I am happy that using the capability of Kochi refinery to produce properly after the execution of IREP, BP sale has gone ahead with putting up three world-scale plans to manufacture acrylic acid. Acrylic and also alcohol under making India. This list of petrochemicals will find a use in paints, ink, coating, detergent and in many other articles. Now BP sale is starting the construction of a petrochemical complex where it would produce polyols that find and use in forms, fibers, footwear, cosmetics and medicines. I am sure by all these many ancillary industries would come to Kochi. I hope the petrochemical park planned by state government would become operational soon and leverage the business opportunities provided by the petrochemical venture of BP sale. I am happy to note that BP sale along with other PSU has set up a skilled development institute for scaling and developing employable use. I am delighted to lay the foundation stone of the second campus of the institute at Atmanur near the Holy Mahadev Temple. I am also glad to note that Indian Oil Cooperation has put out the mounted storage facility at its Kochi and Botanical Plant around 10 km from here at a cost of Rs. 50 crores. This will enhance LPG storage capacity and also reduce road movement of LPG tankers. It is heartening to note that last August when Kerala was passing through the worst floods in 100 years BP sale Kochi refinery was kept running against all odds. Understand? Then many employees stayed in the refinery to ensure continuous production of petrol, diesel and LPG. This helped the rescue vehicles and helicopters to continue relief and rescue operations smoothly. I urge BP sale Kochi, this refinery to keep up the spirit of hard work, social commitment and innovation as it moves toward its next phase of development. We are proud of Kochi's refinery contribution towards nation building. But now we have greater expectations. I wish that Kochi refinery leads a petrochemical revolution in southern India and support the growing needs of a new India. Thank you. Thank you very much.