Posted on 19 Mar 2015
SAIL has undertaken modernisation
and expansion at five of its steel plants to augment its crude steel production
capacity to 21.4 MTPA.
The indicative investment for the current phase of expansion is estimated at Rs
61,870 crore.
The five integrated steel plants are at 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.
"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," he
said.
The minister further said 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, he said.
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.
