Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has launched a groundbreaking industrial trial involving the use of bamboo biochar at its Durgapur Steel Plant in West Burdwan district, marking a first in the Indian steel industry.
A massive chimney at Kusum Steel Plant in the Mungeli district of Chhattisgarh collapsed during construction work leaving a factory worker dead and several others injured and many feared trapped.
After 14 years, Durgapur Steel Plant executives have sent their envoy to New Delhi aiming to contribute their thoughts on the national domain and also to air their grievances.
NMDC Steel Limited (NSL) is now the first steel plant in India to be awarded four Integrated Management System (ISO) licenses simultaneously.
Union steel minister H D Kumaraswamy has agreed to visit Iisco Steel Plant in Burnpur and Durgapur Steel Plant and steel township of Durgapur to inspect and discuss various issues, said MLA of Durgapur Lakshman Ghorui.
During his tenure as director in charge of Iisco Steel Plant and Durgapur Steel Plant massive modernization projects were planned.
At a time, when his dream project of Tata Motors small car factory in Singur started winding up due to land agitation, silently another and more specifically even bigger industry started taking shape.
Both the CITU and the INTTUC have said that they will start a major agitation on this issue soon.
Mamata Banerjee camped in this industrial city for 12 days, which evoked mixed reaction from the locals.
Raja Das, a worker with a steel plant here is a diehard CITU cadre but is impressed by Dilip Ghosh, BJP candidate for Bardhaman Durgapur as Ghosh takes on the ruling Trinamul Congress in state.
