Chhattisgarh govt to relocate Bastar ultra mega steel plant

RAIPUR. Chhattisgarh government has decided to shift the site of its proposed ultra mega steel plant (UMSP), which was supposed to come up in Bastar Dilmili village. The plant was a result of joint venture agreement inlvolving the state government, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC).
 
The agreement was signed last year in May but the project has failed to take off even after the lapse of more 18 months. The Dilmili project was part of part of the four UMSPs planned by the NDA government in Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand and Karnataka. 
 
The initial production capacity of all four plants would be 12 million tonnes per annum (mtpa), which would gradually be scaled up to 24 million tonnes per year..

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