The Department of Fertilizers (DoF) has taken a major step towards sustainable agriculture, carbon neutrality and technological self-reliance by successfully holding a high-level Pre-Expression of Interest (Pre-EoI) meeting for setting up Green Urea plants across India. Held at the PDIL headquarters in Noida, the meeting was chaired by Dr. K.K. Pathak, Joint Secretary (DoF), who is also Chairman and Managing Director of PDIL. Earlier in the week, the DoF had issued an invitation for Expression of Interest (EoI) for establishing Green Urea plants. The meeting brought together stakeholders from public and private sectors, including NTPC, the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), ammonia-urea technology suppliers, leading Indian fertilizer companies, and makers of electrolysers, green hydrogen and green ammonia. On policy and operations, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has committed Rs 19,744 crore to scale up green energy infrastructure, while the DoF will build the institutional and market-parity framework. To protect manufacturers from the higher cost of green ammonia compared with grey ammonia, an offtaker-side differential pricing mechanism was framed; SECI has already floated tenders to buy green ammonia and supply it to domestic fertilizer firms at market-linked grey ammonia prices based on a two-week average of the Platts and Argus indices plus customs and local transport. Under the NGHM (Green Ammonia Mode 2A), a target of 7.24 lakh MT/year of green ammonia is to be procured through a transparent e-reverse auction managed by SECI, with benefits secured for 10 years via a binding GAPA/GASA. The 150 TPD Green Urea pilot plant at Pudimadaka in Andhra Pradesh, developed by NETRA (NTPC R&D), serves as the technical benchmark, combining CCUS with water electrolysis. With Net Zero targeted by 2070, the fertilizer sector could become the country's largest and most reliable consumer of captured CO2.