dibrugarh the centre is looking to generate one lakh jobs in the northeast through development of the plastic industry surjit k chaudhary secretary chemicals and petrochemicals ministry of chemicals and fertilizers said chaudhary was speaking with local entrepreneurs during an interactive session on prospects of the plastic industry in the northeast organized by federation of indian chambers of commerce and industry ficci and brahmaputra cracker and polymer limited bpcl in tinsukia on sunday chaudhary accompanied by representatives of ministry of msme doner director general cipet md bcpl and ficci has been leading a delegation to the ne since may 21 to promote the plastic industry in the region stating that the average per capita consumption of petrochemical in india stood at 8759 kg per head compared to 375 kg in the northeast chaudhary said pricing of polymer produced at the bcpl would be kept competitive for the northeast market the plastic industry is significant to the economic development and growth of various key sectors in the country including automotive construction electronics healthcare textiles and fmcg he added