GOVERNMENT-owned steel major Steel
Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has begun modernisation and
expansion works at five of its steel plants to augment its crude
steel production capacity to 21.4 MTPA.
This will cost the Maharatna PSU around
Rs 61,870 crore.
These steel plants include...
Bhilai,
Bokaro, Rourkela, Durgapur and Burnpur and a special steel plant at
Salem, minister of state for steel and mines Vishnu Deo Sai said in a
written reply to Rajya Sabha on March 18.
"Steel Authority of India Ltd
(SAIL) has undertaken modernisation and expansion of its five
integrated steel plants to enhance its crude steel production
capacity from 12.8 MTPA to 21.4 MTPA in the current phase," the
minister said.
He added a provision of Rs 10,264 crore
has been made towards investment in existing mines and development of
Rowghat mine.
The expansion project at Salem steel
plant has been completed and all facilities under the integrated
process route at Rourkela and IISCO steel plants are in operation,
stabilisation and ramp-up, he said.
Deo further said RINL has undertaken
modernisation and expansion plan at an estimated cost of about Rs
14,701 crore. Units under stage-1 expansion have been commissioned
and are in regular operation.
In a separate reply, he said SAIL will
invest about Rs 4,749 crore to augment its production capacity of the
iron ore mines of Gua in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand.
"This includes an outlay of about
Rs 2,743 crore to set up state-of the-art crushing, benefication and
pelletisation plant facilities," he said.
After expansion, the capacity of Gua
mines will increase to 10 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) which
includes 6 MTPA of iron ore lumps and fines and 4 MTPA of pellets,
the minister said.
SAIL is the country's largest and the
world's 15th largest steel producer with a production of 12 million
tonnes of crude steel. The company owns and operates nine
manufacturing plants, including two subsidiaries.
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